Heather Neilson
James McNamara reviews 'Political Animal: Gore Vidal on Power' by Heather Neilson
James McNamara
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
American writer Gore Vidal was an intimate of political power. His grandfather was a US senator; his father served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Director of Air Commerce. When his mother remarried, to Hugh Auchincloss, Vidal obtained a descendant of Vice President Aaron Burr as a stepfather ...
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