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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 • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

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      Gore Vidal

      author essayist and political activist

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