In the genre of social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender role and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. AD 361–63), the Roman emperor who used general religious toleration to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. In the historical novel genre, Vidal re-created in Julian (1964) the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, with a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. Vidal thought all men and women are potentially bisexual.As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life.

As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. Senate (California, 1982).As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office first to the United States House of Representatives (New York, 1960), then to the U.S.

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( born Eugene Louis Vidal, Octo– July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.Vidal was born to a political family his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma (1907–19–1937).

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