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Bachmann joined GOP because of ‘snotty, mocking attitude’ of Gore Vidal
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Wednesday said that she would not be a member of the Republican Party if it were not for novelist Gore Vidal. “I had been a Democrat and I’d actually worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign and I was reading a novel by Gore Vidal and when…
Novelist Gore Vidal dies at age 86
US novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like “Lincoln” and “Myra Breckenridge”, has died at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported. The writer’s newphew Burr Steers said Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia, the…
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