Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal

“I wrote Views with Gore Vidal almost twenty years ago. It is a delight to see that it has been a source of information for various scholars throughout these many years. I arranged the book in a new way for doing interviews, putting Vidal into a dramatic setting where he had to answer questions from more than twenty of us engaged in interviewing him. I myself interviewed him off and on for more than three years. Reviewers at the time called my format a new kind of Mega-interview form…Vidal is America’s greatest satirist—ever! And those people who read Views will see that Vidal spares very few his quick thrusts of ridicule to bring them down to earth for a good laugh—at their expense, of course.” —Robert J. Stanton, editor’s note, 1999