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Gore Vidal

writer, historian

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000683/bio

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 to West Point aeronautics instructor Gene Vidal and his wife Nina. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. He is also a cousin of Tennessee ex-senator and ex-vice president Al Gore . [more]

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

Gore Vidal

November 20, 2003

00:58:14

In his latest book, Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Gore Vidal takes readers behind the scenes as America's founding fathers fought and worked to create a new country.

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Icons of America)

Author: Gore Vidal

Publisher: Yale University Press (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 223 pages

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