Additionally he was known for his well publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer, William F. In addition to this, he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the 1980s onwards. Through his essays and media appearances, Vidal was a long time critic of American foreign policy. As well known for his essays as his novels, Vidal wrote for The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books and Esquire. Vidal ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation (through marriage) to Jacqueline Kennedy. He was also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. A brilliant and vividly imaginative tale about some of the key events of the twentieth century, The Smithsonian Institution is a dramatic masterwork of comedy and allusion.Įugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. Readers of such bestsellers as Burr, Lincoln, Duluth, and 1876 will revel in this, his latest foray into the American scene. Gore Vidal has written some of the finest and most inventive novels in modern times. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save not just himself, but humanity. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum.
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement.
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