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Gore Vidal

Name: Gore Vidal
Uploaded: 1975-07-27T19:00:00-0400
Duration: 16 min 8 s
Description: "Author, social critic, dilettante anthropologist." That's how Mike Wallace describes Gore Vidal in this classic profile. Wallace trails Vidal at parties, at home in Italy, and on the American lecture circuit, questioning him on everything from his sex life to his opinion of various U.S. presidents.

"Author, social critic, dilettante anthropologist." That's how Mike Wallace describes Gore Vidal in this classic profile. Wallace trails Vidal at parties, at home in Italy, and on the American lecture circuit, questioning him on everything from his sex life to his opinion of various U.S. presidents.