Videos: Gore Vidal on America – A seven-part series A classic Real News seven-part interview with Gore Vidal from 2007

5 July, 2009: Think: Interviews with important thinkers

This seven-part interview is classic Gore Vidal. Whether you agree with Vidal or not, as Martin Amis said: “Even his blind spots are illuminating.”

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Gore Vidal on the Cold War

Part one of a seven-part interview with Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal on “The Emperor”

Part 2: “He smiled benignly at the oil wells”

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Gore Vidal on liberty

Part 3: The people who wrote the constitution hated democracy

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Gore Vidal on US media and society

Part 4: We’re not the United States of Amnesia — We’re the United States of Alzheimer’s

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Gore Vidal on the Democrats and religion

Part 5: How different would a Democratic Party administration be?

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Gore Vidal on the future

Part 6: “We’ve got to get back the pillars of the Constitution”

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Gore Vidal on the media

Part 7: Have TV journalists learned anything from the last several years?



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