The finest essayist since the war, Gore Vidal combines wit and
learning with a remarkable range. He is liberal, intolerant of
academics, very witty and, most importantly, an enthusiast. This
enormous doorstop of a book gathers together about two-thirds of
the essays he has written over 40 years. (Kirkus UK)
Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring
one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work,
contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines
and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or
states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and
critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde,
Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay
from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life:
sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy
Family (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally Monotheism
and its Discontents , a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism
and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to
people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit,
Tarzan, Tennessee Williams and Anais Nin.
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