IP: Gore Vidal

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

This is not pleasant reading. If you find criticism of the US and W 
objectionable, don't read this and if you do -- don't yell at me djf

> http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200110150010.htm
>
> New Statesman (UK)
>
> 15 October 2001
>
> War on Terror - The exile who despairs of his "ignorant"
> homeland denounces the war and its hawks. Gore Vidal
> interviewed by Johann Hari.
>
> Interview - Gore Vidal
>
> By Johann Hari
>
> The United States has been forced to reimagine itself this
> past month. So who better for the New Statesman to track
> down in his obscure mountain hideaway (no, not Bin Laden)
> than the man who has dedicated his life and writing to
> telling Americans their real, non-sanitised history: Gore
> Vidal. This is a man, after all, who knew and influenced the
> icons that defined 20th-century America. He was a close
> friend of more than one president (not forgetting that
> Eleanor Roosevelt urged him to run for elected office), was
> sucked off by Jack Kerouac, was attacked (both in print and
> to his face) by Norman Mailer, was a confidant of the
> Oklahoma bomber and Bill Clinton, and had to tell Tennessee
> Williams to stop trying to cruise Jack Kennedy. Now that the
> 20th century has truly reached its symbolic end, this is
> surely the ideal man to help us understand the new, battered
> America.
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