wyszukanych pozycji: 16
United States: Essays 1952-1992
ISBN: 9780349105246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 1312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family...
Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about t...
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87,31 zł |
The Messiah
ISBN: 9780141180397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,02 zł |
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
ISBN: 9780307275011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor...
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and con...
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76,92 zł |
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
ISBN: 9780375726392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects. From his celebrated profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh and his controversial essay about the Bill of Rights-which sparked an extended correspondence with convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh-to his...
Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his re...
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85,47 zł |
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
ISBN: 9781560257448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Americathose who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blueby demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots. "Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic," he writes. "They are...
Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Amer...
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85,43 zł |
Empire
ISBN: 9780375708749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age--a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their...
"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earl...
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81,20 zł |
The Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 9780156006484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save...
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is bein...
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80,99 zł |
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
ISBN: 9780300105926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense l... |
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69,02 zł |
Dreaming War
ISBN: 9781560255024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose...
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last ...
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85,43 zł |
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener
ISBN: 9781619021747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle of your car. One is not loved for being helpful." Gore Vidal, one of America's foremost essayists, screenwriters, and novelists, died July 31, 2012. He was, in addition, a terrific conversationalist. Dick Cavett once described him as "the best talker since Oscar Wilde." And Vidal was never...
"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious...
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68,17 zł |
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
ISBN: 9781560254058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the...
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American...
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64,10 zł |
Williwaw
ISBN: 9780226855851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen, when he was first mate of a U.S. army freight supply ship. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the lethal, frigid Arctic waters during storm season.
Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen, when he was first mate of a U.S. army freight supply ship. Here he writes of a ship caught...
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173,82 zł |
Death in the Fifth Position
ISBN: 9780307741424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Death in the Fifth Position, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the company is killed during the performance--dropped from thirty feet above the stage, crashing to her death in a perfect fifth position--Sargent has a real case on his hands. As he ingratiates himself with the players behind the scenes (especially one lovely young ballerina), he finds that this seemingly graceful ballet company is performing their most dramatic acts behind the...
In Death in the Fifth Position, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handlin...
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72,65 zł |
America First!: Its History, Culture, and Politics
ISBN: 9781633883093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. America First is a rarity among political books: first published in 1995, it remains more timely, relevant, and even urgent than ever.
Lively and iconoclastic, it explores the rich heritage, the turbulent present, and the possible future of the political and cultural tendency known as "America First." Bill Kauffman, a columnist for the American Conservative, examines the nineteenth-century underpinnings and twentieth-century eruptions of American isolationism and nationalism, which are the fault lines along which the politics of the twenty-first century are cleaving. In... America First is a rarity among political books: first published in 1995, it remains more timely, relevant, and even urgent than ever.
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76,92 zł |
Confessions of an Art Addict
ISBN: 9780880015769 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves. Here is a book that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as well as the spirit of one of its greatest advocates. 13 photos.
A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with reveali...
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76,92 zł |
Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates
ISBN: 9781942531128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network s unconventional convention coverage. The debates were fiery and combative and they infamously blew up at each other during their penultimate debate in Chicago. The debates, the subject of the new documentary film Best of Enemies, have not been shown or transcribed in their entirety since the original airings in 1968. The Devault-GravesAgency -- the publisher that made world news in...
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 w...
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106,63 zł |