Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Yale University Press Nov. 2003 isbn: 0300101716 $22.00 Other Books by Gore Vidal

Harvard Book Store Author Series Presents:

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to announce that on Thursday, November 20th Gore Vidal will be reading from and discussing his new book, Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson. Gore Vidal, a master stylist of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal's splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now - their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy.

Christopher Lydon, former host of NPR's "The Connection," will be interviewing the author as part of this event.

Gore Vidal

Author Biography:

Gore Vidal, novelist, essayist, and playwright, is one of America's great men of letters. Among his many books are United States: Essays 1951-1991 (winner of the National Book Award), Burr: A Novel, Lincoln, and the recent Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.