He did write some pretty decent history/novel; I thought Lincoln was a interesting portrait.
> He did write some pretty decent history/novel; I thought Lincoln was a interesting portrait.
There are worse writers. Burr and Creation were entertaining, but after you've read a few, you've read them all. You know that expat homo malcontent is 80 now. He's moving to Hollywood to enjoy what sycophantism is left for him in his last years.
I thought it was brilliant. What a very strange fellow Vidal is - capable of that sort of insight toward Lincoln, a man who risked national and international opprobrium to save his country, and incapable of applying the lesson to the present day. I believe Vidal when he says that he is in favor of freedom for the masses, but I do not forgive him for acting against it.