4:35pm ET - Gore Vidal once said
of himself: “I am exactly as I appear.
There is no warm, lovable person inside.
Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.” And it is this impression of the great author
and political commentator that Michael
Mewshaw seeks to shatter with his new memoir Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
which offers a more complex, nuanced, and human portrait of a man who was as
generous and loyal as he was abrasive and arrogant. Michael joins us today to discuss his book
and relationship with Gore Vidal.
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