Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor emeritus of American History and Culture at Cornell University, is available to comment on the death of Gore Vidal.
He says:
“Gore Vidal was simply wonderful. He was a brilliant intellect, a superb stylist, and a fabulous gossip. He knew Washington society and had the best stories about the most interesting people you can imagine. “His fiction was often historical, and in later years he turned to various 19th century topics and brought them alive, adding suspense to stories you thought you already knew. A reader could hardly do better than picking up his most recent volume of collected essays. “He was a great controversialist, doing battle on television panel shows with conservatives. He described and explained American political culture past and present and illuminated what we thought knew, or areas that we had forgotten. He had the most inquiring mind you can imagine and he dared to be outspoken. He will be missed.”
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