Gore Vidal Part 2
February 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Trained educator Zach Loavenbruck recently applied his teaching background toward managing a team of service representatives for Liaison International, a distributor of exam management and admissions software to institutions of higher learning and professional trade associations. A graduate of the University of Rochester, Pace University, and the University of Connecticut, Zach Loavenbruck frequently engages in cerebral pursuits like reading and writing. Of his favorite authors, Zach Loavenbruck has read many of the works of Gore Vidal, including Lincoln and Burr: A Novel.
Celebrated author Gore Vidal leads a multidisciplinary career, serving as a screenplay writer for Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios during the 1950s and 60s and running for political office twice in his life. Often associated with the postmodernism movement, Vidal earned as much praise for his essays and memoirs as he did for his fiction. Some of his more notable nonfiction pieces include Armageddon?, which investigates power in the United States, and Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings, a compilation of essays presenting Vidal’s perspective on sex and relations.
Focusing on novels and nonfiction work for much of his later life, Vidal sporadically revisited scriptwriting for cinema and television from the 1960s onward. Vidal’s credits include a 1989 made-for-TV movie titled Billy the Kid and a mini-series on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Vidal’s roles as an actor consist of appearances in the films Bob Roberts, Gattaca, With Honors, and Igby Goes Down, and voice performances on episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons.
An unreserved political critic, Gore Vidal campaigned in 1960 as a Democratic candidate for New York’s 29th congressional district. Losing by a modest margin to J. Ernest Wharton in a traditionally Republican area, Vidal achieved 43 percent of the votes, more than any other Democrat had in the previous half century. Vidal’s supporters in his first run at legislature included Eleanor Roosevelt and longtime friends Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. During the early 1970s, Vidal chaired the People’s Party. Ten years later, he ran against current California Governor Jerry Brown for a U.S. Senate seat, representing California. Vidal lost to Brown in the primary election, though the author’s second attempt at political office was captured in the documentary film Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No.
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