Download or read book Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare written by Gore Vidal and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life focuses on a collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from his vast personal archives. Written with his legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but is a captivating social history of the 20th century told by one of its greatest raconteurs.