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    Gore Vidal

    Point to Point Navigation (Doubleday) Using his recent memoir as springboard, Gore Vidal nimbly leaps from the history of prose narrative to the contemporary decline of culture in America.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Mar 1, 2007 • 30m Listen

    Point to Point Navigation (Doubleday)

    Using his recent memoir as springboard, Gore Vidal nimbly leaps from the history of prose narrative to the contemporary decline of culture in America. He reveals himself, yet again, as a master of all he surveys.

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