“The Greatest Pie Ever Baked By Arbitragers”: Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, The Lies of Empire & Other Sad Truths
On Gore Vidal’s Italian adaptation of Mark Twain’s “To The Person Sitting in Darkness.”
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Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque
In 1992, Gore Vidal used Mark Twain’s characters to allegorize what he believed might be the last U.S. presidential election.
Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, & The Nadirs of U.S. Electoral History
“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – The Apocryphal Twain In November 1973, Gore Vidal’s Burr debuted at #4 on the NYT Best Seller List. The novel spent the next 39 weeks in the top ten, including 21 […]