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Gore Vidal, author, historian?
Author maybe. I've never read his 3000 page books, but I've read a play he wrote called "Visit to a Small Planet," which was very popular. The play really, really sucked.
Gore Vidal is not a historian, he's just created this "image" that he is one. I don't know of any academic degrees that Vidal has in history. Perhaps he has some formal education in history, but he sure don't advertise it.
Vidal is a pompous asshole who is in love with himself. He is the left-wing equivalent of William F. Buckley Jr. I'm not sure which man is worse, or which man is more excruciatingly ugly. Buckley is probably worse, but only because his politics are evil.
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