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This is hardly true, but one knows why someone who thinks writing essays is a matter of keeping cool and writing well might think so. There are 45 occasional pieces in Vidal's volume, and there isn't a clinker in the bunch. If that doesn't make one America's finest essayist, it sets one well apart from the run of the mill. Furthermore, it seems that Vidal is getting better. The early essays--on the postwar novel, on television and writing for television, on the Great Golfer called Eisenhower--all now seem brittle, monochromatic.
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972 (ISBN:0394482107) (NoDust)
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The forty-four essays in this collection range in subject matter from pornography, the Kennedys, Tarzan, Yukio Mishima, Norman Mailer and paranoid politics.
Get A Copy. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Homage to Daniel Shays , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Homage to Daniel Shays. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. I was somewhat disappointed in this collection of essays written from to I expected to find the essays a lively and fascinating look at the time frame, but they seemed more like the personal ramblings of a diary.
I thought several essays were difficult to follow and desperately needed an editor. It was worth a try, but I tend to think Vidal's novels were better. Mar 19, Henry Sturcke rated it really liked it. This collection of forty-four essays, arranged in chronological order, permits one to see the author develop over the course of two decades. Vidal hits his stride when he and The New York Review of Books connect in , shortly after it began publishing.
As is inevitable in a collection like this, some of the entries have a dated feel, but a surprisingly high percentage repay reading now, a half-century on. Vidal is one of the few writers equally at home in literature, history, and politics, and This collection of forty-four essays, arranged in chronological order, permits one to see the author develop over the course of two decades. Vidal is one of the few writers equally at home in literature, history, and politics, and if one shares his triad of interests, there is much here to savor.
But others, particularly those—now the majority of the living—too young to remember President Eisenhower or Mort Sahl, might content themselves with the one-volume anthology, United States , which culled the best of three essay collections up to a fourth collection appeared in Completists like me, however, will want to read them all.
One discovers many recurring themes, such as that the heyday of the novel as a popular art form is over, replaced by the movies, or his assertion that the U. Vidal also maintained that there is no genuine two-party system in the country. Since the adoption of the Constitution, it has been governed by the Property Party, which has two wings, the reactionary currently the Republicans and the moderate as of now the Democrats , and that the elected representatives of both are profoundly corrupt.
Speaking of Henry Miller: the fact that Vidal has no moral qualms about pornography as an art form makes his skewering of Sexus all the more effective.
Rightly or wrongly. Mar 10, Jack added it Shelves: gore-vidal. Many brilliant essays, not as much of a flavour of the times as you'd expect, as Vidal seems to spend more time in the library than in the streets but many wonderful essays on the literary arts is nothing to complain about.
Reminds you that there's pretty much no-one around today who is as at home discussing fiction as they are holding forth on the full range of political issues, economic and cultural. Apr 15, Asa rated it really liked it. Drug essay still feels relevant though it was written in the 50's, take down of Mailer always fun, Mishima essay is heartfelt and beautiful in it's own right I want to finally read some Vidal novels, but I don't know where to start.
May 04, Doug rated it really liked it. As an essayist Vidal is both erudite and plain. And who else of patrician background could write so sympathetically of Daniel Shays, agrarian rebel of ? Certainly not Buckley. His review of Miller's 'Sexus' confirmed much of my own prior or future disappointment with this work, as well.
Sep 13, Beth in SF rated it really liked it Shelves: essays. His essays remind me to be honest about my own opinions and just say it like it is and how you feel truthfully at that time. David rated it really liked it Dec 23, Anastasia rated it really liked it Feb 26, Jesse K rated it it was amazing Jan 25, Jim rated it it was amazing Aug 13, Richard rated it really liked it Dec 02, James Andrews rated it really liked it Jan 06, Steven rated it it was amazing Jan 24, Pat rated it really liked it May 28, Armen rated it it was amazing Jul 02, Beau Daignault rated it it was amazing Jun 10, Sam rated it liked it Oct 05, Andrew rated it it was amazing Apr 06, Gretta rated it liked it May 19, Donna rated it did not like it Jan 09, Fabian rated it it was amazing Mar 18, Jeff rated it really liked it Feb 26, Jesse rated it liked it Apr 30, Bill rated it it was amazing May 24, Kevin Cole rated it it was amazing May 16, Thomas Clark rated it really liked it Aug 17, Jim rated it it was amazing Dec 31, Herb Hastings rated it it was amazing Jul 06, Hollis rated it really liked it May 28, Jay Kulpa rated it it was amazing Aug 17, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Readers also enjoyed. About Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. He was also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage; his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation through marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.
Vidal ran for political office twi Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. Vidal ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic. He was a lifelong isolationist Democrat. Through his essays and media appearances, Vidal was a long time critic of American foreign policy.
In addition to this, he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the s onwards. Additionally he was known for his well publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley, Jr. Vidal's novels fell into two distinct camps: social and historical. His best known social novel was Myra Breckinridge ; his best known historical novels included Julian, Burr and Lincoln. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality.
At the time of his death he was the last of a generation of American writers who had served during World War II, including J.
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