James Edmonds

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James Edmonds



Average rating: 4.13 · 31 ratings · 2 reviews · 23 distinct works
American Master: A Portrait...

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King Faisal: A Life

4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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The House of Nahyan: The St...

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Ozymandias

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Start of Something New

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The Declining Day

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The Immolation

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Dead Stars

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Berenice

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Cosmicommunist: Essays on C...

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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)  ”
James Edmonds, 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”
James Edmonds, 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”
James Edmonds, American Master: A Portrait of Gore Vidal



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