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Title: Gore Settling Scores?
Review: The jacket tells us that Fred Kaplan "enjoyed complete access to Vidal's papers, letters" but "was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit". Sadly though the book comes across as an opportunity for Mr. Vidal to settle scores with his old enemies. Mr. Kaplan rarely, if ever, suggests that Mr. Vidal may be the source of the cat fights with his old pals.After an argument with Bobbv Kennedy at a social function in the Whitehouse wherein Mr. Vidal suggests to Bobby Kennedy that the FBI is "cozy" with the Klu Klux Klan, they clash and Vidal flees from a "terrible bad karma in the air". Quoting the author, Fred Kaplan ""he found himself at a table with Ethel Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's wife and two other equally dull people, a tediousness that flowing champagne helped make tolerable".It was comments like this throughout the book that made me wonder how objective this bio was ...
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