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Famous Author Topic: Gore Vidal Thesis: ** Gore Vidal wrote many books with gay characters and was apart of World War II, had no higher education after high school since he went into the war, and known as the "Bad Boy" of American Literature and a important figure in the gay literature heritage. **


 * 1) Known as the bad boy of American Literature
 * 2) why is he a bad boy of American Lit?
 * 3) Wrote many books on WWII
 * 4) What kind of books and why?
 * 5) Novelist, playwriter, essayist, mystery writer
 * 6) Fought in WWII, entered WWII in teens and was rising in ranks to sergeant, no formal higher education
 * 7) Did he like his experience Why?
 * 8) Wrote gay characters into his books, beginning with his 1st book, Williwaw
 * 9) Why gay characters?
 * 10) Know for his important for the gay literature heritage
 * 11) Why is he known to be important in gay literature?
 * 12) US writer and critic
 * 13) Most of his fiction is deals with satirically with history and polotics
 * 14) Born at West Point Military Academy in New York, lived most of his life with his blinded grandfather
 * 15) ** Vidal, Gore. Gore Vidal. Biography and complete works. . 12/3/10 12/3/10 . **
 * 16) Army life gave him the experience to write his first novel //Williwaw(1946)//
 * 17) Graduated from Phillip Exetar Academy
 * 18) Didn't like when people used the word gay
 * 19) Believed and insisted that "HOMOSEXUAL" was a adjective
 * 20) Most of his life he was reticent about his personal life
 * 21) Began his writing carrer at age 19
 * 22) He wrote //__Williwaw__// before his detachment to an Alaska Harbor
 * 23) His novel was successful and chronologically first of the WWII war novels
 * 24) A few years later, the New York Times refused to review his books on "Homosexualality"
 * 25) Hired as a Metro Goldwyn Mayer ScreenWriter in 1956
 * 26) At least in the USA, Vidal is a well respected more as a essayist then a novelist
 * 27) Wrote detective stories under the name of Edgar Box
 * 28) Essay and Non-Fiction books:
 * 29) //**__Rocking the Boat, 1963__**//
 * 30) **__//Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, 1969//__**
 * 31) **__//Sex, Death and Money: 1969//__**
 * 32) **__//Homage to Daniel Shays, 1972//__**
 * 33) **__//Matters of Fact and of Fiction//__**
 * 34) Five of just his many Eassy and Non-Fiction books writen by Gore Vidal
 * 35) Strongly crictical against George W. Bush
 * 36) Born into a politically knowledged family
 * 37) He ran for the US Senate of California
 * 38) Raced against Governer Jerry Brown
 * 39) Was democratic and racing for democratic US Senate
 * 40) Was an Unsuccessful Democratic Canidantee for Congress
 * 41) 1970-72 Vidal was one of the Chairmen for the People's Party
 * 42) Believed there was only one party, the Property Party
 * 43) Also believed that the Republican's were the stupider branch of the Property Party
 * 44) Said the Democrats were more cutier, prettier, and abit more corrupt until today
 * 45) Thinks of himself as a "**Conservative"**
 * 46) **Has a protective, almost proprietary attitude toward his native land and its politics**
 * 47) Suggested that President Rossevelt deliberately provoked Japan to attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor
 * 48) Thought that Rossevelt did that to make the entry for American into the war
 * 49) Believed that FDR had prior knowledge of the attack too
 * 50) Said that the Japaneese wanted to surrender the whole last few months of WWII but Truman wouldn't listen
 * 51) Stated that he believed Truman wanted to drop **Big Bombs** onto the Japaneese
 * 52) Truman didn't listen to the Jap's just so he could drop the big bombs
 * 53) Vidal was asked why we believed this, he answered that Truman wanted to "Show off"
 * 54) "To frighten Stalin. To change the balance of the World Power."
 * 55) "Truman wanted declare war on Communism"
 * 56) Also stated that "Perhaps we were starting a pre-emptive world war."
 * 57) Vidal had an interview with domestic terrorist **Timothy McVeigh's** imprisonment
 * 58) Said that **McVeigh bombed the Federal building as retribution of the FBI's role in the 1993Branch Davidan Compound massacre in Waco, Texas**
 * 59) Was apart of the **World Can't Wait** group that tried to impeach President **George W. Bush**
 * 60) Was apart of the **World Can't Wait** group to see **Bush** in jail for **war crimes**
 * 61) Believed the US would soon have a dictatorship
 * 62) Described **George W. Bush** as the "stupidest man in the United Sttates"
 * 63) Claimed **Bush** and his administration have been, and were trying to control the petrolium in Central Asia
 * 64) Says he isn't a conspiracy theorist, only a analyst
 * 65) Believed that whatever Bush and his administration touched, it was ruined/screwed up
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 * 68) Believed that Obama would be a better President then Clinton and now he regrets that choice
 * 69) Vidal states that Obama is diong a dreadful job
 * 70) Believes Obama is the most intelligent person that we've had for a president for a long time
 * 71) Was hopeful for Obama but didn't realize that he lacked the experience
 * 72) Vidal believes America should leave Afghanistan also
 * 73) Says the "War on Terror" was "Made-up"
 * 74) Hates liars and believes he lives in a nation of liars
 * 75) Believed Obama messed up with the healthcare reform
 * 76) Thinks Obama needs some of Lincoln's //**"Chill"**//
 * 77) States that Hillary Clinton knows more about the world then Obama, making her the best choice for president
 * 78) Parents had many remarriages and Vidal still hasn't met his step-siblings to this day
 * 79) Was blacklisted by the media after writing **//The City and the Pillar//**
 * 80) Was asked if he is happy in his life adn he qouted "//**Call no man happy until he is dead"**//