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  title info:
    title: At home
    sub title: essays, 1982-1988
  name:
    name part: Vidal, Gore
    name part: 1925-2012
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: essay
  genre: Essays.
  genre: Annotations (Provenance)-20th century.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1988
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 303 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: Presents twenty-three new essays that examine the leadership of present-day America, from presidents to born-again Christians, as well as Vidal's thoughts on writers of today and yesteryear.
  table of contents: pt. 1. At home in Washington, D.C. ; On flying ; Frederic Prokosch : the European connection ; Tennessee Williams : someone to laugh at the squares with ; Richard Nixon : not The best man's best man ; Hollywood! ; Ronnie and Nancy : a life in pictures ; Armageddon? ; The day the American Empire ran out of gas ; A cheerful response ; Ollie ; The national security state ; Mongolia! ; At home in a Roman street -- pt. 2. The bookchat of Henry James ; William Dean Howells ; The golden bowl of Hewnry James ; Logan Pearsall Smith loves the adverb ; Oscar Wilde : on the skids again ; Paul Bowles's stories ; Calvino's death ; Why I am eight years younger than Anthony Burgess ; Dawn Powell : the American writer ; How I do what I do if not why.
  note: Gore Vidal.
  note: Published in somewhat different form in 1987 by André Deutsch, London, under title: Armageddon? : essays, 1983-1987.
  note: LC copy in dust jacket.
  note: Source: Copyright deposit, Mar. 1, 1989.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: CHR 1988
  subject:
    topic: PRO Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
  subject:
    topic: PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
  classification: PS3543.I26 A89 1988
  classification: 814/.54
  classification: 814.54 V648a
  classification: 17.97
  classification: 18.06
  classification: HU 9021
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Armageddon?
    name:
      name part: Vidal, Gore,
      name part: 1925-2012
  related item:
    title info:
      title: At home
    name:
      name part: Vidal, Gore, 1925-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Random House, [1988]
      edition: 1st American ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)647616800
  identifier: 0394570200
  identifier: 9780394570204
  identifier: 88042670
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 880401
    record change date: 20201123113800.0
    record identifier: in00000768638
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng