James Edmonds
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American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
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published
2012
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King Faisal: A Life
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published
2015
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4 editions
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The House of Nahyan: The Story of an Arabian Dynasty
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Ozymandias
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published
2014
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3 editions
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The Start of Something New
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The Declining Day
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published
2013
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2 editions
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The Immolation
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published
2014
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3 editions
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Dead Stars
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Berenice
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Cosmicommunist: Essays on Calvino
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“Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in – Montaigne (I: 23) ”
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
“mass movements arise from the feelings of boredom and irrelevance that come from living in a mechanized society. “Boredom, finally, is the one monster the race will never conquer”
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
“Vidal could not not work hard (“I find that when I do not write, I do not think”). He agreed to do a teleplay for NBC about Abraham Lincoln, which soon grew into the novel that would be his magnum opus and most successful book. Work was fueled by coffee (“This stuff has killed more writers than liquor”) and a desire to stave off the melancholy of middle age. So he kept busy (“The mind that doesn’t nourish itself devours itself”). By”
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
― American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal
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