Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist,
indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's
premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast
learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of
writing an essay.
This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved
pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and,
occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the
most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly
accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.