Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/vɪˈdɑːl/; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). More about Gore Vidal
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A grandson of a U.S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer.In total, we tracked 175 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Gore Vidal (Signed Photograph of Gore Vidal) was sold in May 2021 for $180.00 while the cheapest item (Gore Vidal Signature, Photo & AD for The City and the Pillar 8x15 Double matted) found a new owner for $0.99 in September 2016. The month with the most items sold (10) was January 2024 with an average selling price of $18.47 for an autographed item of Gore Vidal. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2022 with $79.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was June 2009. In average, an autographed item from Gore Vidal is worth $22.00.
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