title: Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International)
author:  Gore Vidal 
description: Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age. <i>The Washington Post Book World</i>Vidal is the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson. <i>Newsweek</i> Wonderfully selected. . . . All classic Vidal essays are here. . . . [They] confirm Vidal's stature. <i>The</i> <i>Buffalo News</i>Gore Vidal, essayist; so good that we cannot do without him. He is a treasure of the state. R.W.B. Lewis, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>Fearlessness and independence of mind are the strengths in this authors arms, but his hearts love is language and the richness of language.<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>
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  **Creation**
  
   **Gore Vidal**
  
  “AMBITIOUS ... LEARNED ...
  
  IT ENTERTAINS
  
  by giving a bystander’s view of great events
  
  and men.”
  
   _The New York Times Book Review_
  
  “A RICH, COLORFUL AND FULFILLING
  
  TAPESTRY ...
  
  One of the finest books of this decade, even
  
  with almost nine years ahead of us.”
  
   _The San Diego Union_
  
  “HIGHLY LITERATE, STYLISH,
  
  ENTERTAINING AND PROVOCATIVE.’
  
   _The Wall Street Journal_
  
  “FEW AMERICAN WRITERS CAN DISPLAY
  
  THE VIRTUOSITY OF GORE VIDAL ...
  
  In recent years, there has been no historical novel
  
  remotely like _CREATION_.”
  
   _The New Republic_
  
  “COMPELLING ...
  
  Vidal is one of the great writing talents
  
  of our time.”
  
   _Los Angeles Herald Examiner_
  
  “A MOST AMBITIOUS AND REMARKABLE
  
  RECREATION
  
  of a time as much shrouded in legend as it is
  
  recorded in history.”
  
   _King Features Syndicate_
  
  “VIDAL IS ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT
  
  OF AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS.”
  
   _The Associated Press_
  
  “VAST, COMPELLING, AND
  