Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia - a Film by Nicholas Wrathall

Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American man of letters: essayist, novelist, playwright, and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of writing. Love him or loathe him, he had a lot to say, and was listened to closely, even by his detractors. Background Gore Vidal was a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He wrote well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire. With thanks to YouTuber The Toltec for excavating this film. I do not believe it is available commercially. AntPDC Note: "Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal" can be viewed here: https://studio.youtube.com/video/n-foBp6qvdA/edit And to those who quite rightly object to the inappropriate ads in this video (including the person who called me a "cunt" this morning), the excessive number of them is because copyright is claimed - usually speciously - by various rapaciously greedy entities who spend all day crawling across YouTube looking to make even more dosh. I am not in control of this. My Channel is not "monetised", but alas YouTube (now in the venal hands of Google - itself owned by the shady "Alphabet" conglomerate - who continue to pretend that they operate under the precept of "doing no evil") actively enables this kind of egregious abuse. However, if you are viewing on a PC or Mac, may I gently suggest that you install Adblock Plus in your browser. It's free, non spyware, and completely effective. Alternatively, feel free to download this important film and watch it ad-free at your leisure. I'm bound to say: who is the "cunt" now? And BTW, please do eschew that personal information hawker - aka Google Search - and switch to Duck Duck Go or similar. Best wishes. 181 Joe Ellis Gore was preaching the same thing that years later is still true. The rich are fucking us over! 29 Shelltowee 86 "It's a noble thing to give your life for your country, fuck that" damn what a quote. 28 babstra55 it's shocking how current everything he said 50-60 years ago is today. 79 Space "Whenever I want to know what the United States is up to, I look into the blackness of my own heart" 76 hcheetah100 Greatness of America: people like him exist. Failure of America: people like him exist to no avail. 132 Gustav Agenbacht If you study History in depth, even as halfheartedly as me (as a layman), you have to conclude this: Truth, is never, ever, popular. The Lie triumphs in any age. 18