Unafraid to point fingers and assassinate characters, Gore Vidal has always been provocative, if not universally liked. A prolific essayist and acclaimed author of historical novels such as 1984's Lincoln, his talent for positioning history within a modern context is one thing about Vidal that remains undisputed.

Burr
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Lincoln
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Julian
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The City and the Pillar
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Creation
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Hollywood
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1876
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Empire
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The Golden Age
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Palimpsest
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Washington, D.C.
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
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Myra Breckinridge
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
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Kalki
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series)
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Imperial America
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Duluth
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Messiah
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
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Live from Golgotha
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The Smithsonian Institution
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Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
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Thieves Fall Out
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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
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Julian/Williwaw/The Judgement of Paris/Messiah/The City and the Pillar
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Williwaw
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