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Candidate Vidal


In Episode Two, Vidalotry explores Gore Vidal’s love/hate relationship with America. Host Ryan Breegle looks at Gore’s two political campaigns, his controversial views on party politics, and the play he wrote about the scandalous secrets candidates dig up to use against each other.

SOURCES:

Books:

The Best Man: A Play About Politics, Gore Vidal, 1960

Palimpsest: A Memoir, Gore Vidal, 1995

Snapshots In History’s Glare, Gore Vidal, 2009

Empire Of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, Jay Parini, 2015

Audio:

French interview, 1964

Profile of a Writer, 1978

Afternoon Plus, Thames Television, 1981

The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, 1981

The Merv Griffin Show, 1981

Omnibus, BBC, 1995

Gore Vidal, PBS, 1998

Theater Talk, 2000

The South Bank Show, ITV, 2008