Palimpsest
Gore Vidal
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<b>Vidal on Vidal—a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject.</b><br><b><br>A <i>New York Times </i>best American memoir<br></b><br><b>“In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path.” —</b><i><b>Los Angeles Times</b></i><br><br> <i>Palimpsest </i>is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator, controversialist, and a man who knew pretty much everybody worth knowing (from&nbsp;Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, Jack Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams, and on and on). <br><br>Here, recalled with the charm and razor wit of one of the great raconteurs of our time, are his birth into a DC political clan; his school days; his service in...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>