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Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don't mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United States, The Last Empire....
Bill Kauffman
August 1, 2012

Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don’t mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United States, The Last Empire….

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A stack of three Local Culture journals and the book 'Localism in the Mass Age'

Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.

3 comments

  • Siarlys Jenkins
    13 years ago

    I never said he was a good person. From what little I’ve read, I don’t think I would want to spend time with him socially. But he was a great and accurate author. Whether he wrote as a Democrat or was a quintessential Democrat I don’t know. David Duke ran as a Republican.

  • KenK
    13 years ago

    @Siarlys Jenkins
    Vidal ran for office twice as a Democrat so Bachmann seems to be right.

    Gore Vidal was a gifted talent but was not a especially good person and never tried to be either. The only other literary figure that matches his sort would have to be the Marquis DeSade.

  • Siarlys Jenkins
    13 years ago

    Michelle Bachmann said she decided to become a Republican and seeing how disrespectfully he treated the Founding Fathers. I guess she thought of Vidal as a Democrat. Apparently it never crossed her mind that Vidal was telling the simple truth. Human? They were all VERY human.

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