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  1. James Edmonds _ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an

    believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing." In
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  2. James Edmonds _ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an

    The Supreme Court – on behalf of the propertied few – quickly interpreted the word "person" to apply to corporate entities and misapplied the Fourteenth Amendment to give corporations freedom from state regulation. With no federal regulation either, the corporations existed in a laissez faire paradise. Meanwhile, the Court ignored the rights of actual human beings and civil liberties were largely left to state officialdom. Attacked
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  3. James Edmonds _ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an

    Vidal could not not work hard {"I find that when I do not write, I do not think"}. He agreed to do a teleplay for NBC about Abraham Lincoln, which soon grew into the novel that would be his magnum opus and most successful book. Work was fueled by coffee {"This stuff has killed more writers than liquor"} and a desire to stave off the melancholy of middle age. So he kept busy {"The mind that doesn't nourish itself devours itself"}. By
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  4. James Edmonds _ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an

    mass movements arise from the feelings of boredom and irrelevance that come from living in a mechanized society. "Boredom, finally, is the one monster the race will never conquer
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  5. James Edmonds _ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an

    There is only one party in the United States, the Property party…and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently…and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." That
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