Gore Vidal
If anyone’s life is worth recounting, it’s Gore Vidal’s. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with John F. Kennedy. Kurt finds out that despite working on this chronicle of his life, Gore Vidal isn’t thinking about posterity: ‘Who gives a damn about being remembered? That’s really for amateurs.’
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