The Cold War and the American media in the fiction of Gore Vidal

This thesis is a reading of the satirical fiction and the political essays of Gore Vidal. It argues that central to Vidal's representation of contemporary America is an understanding that the media have been essential to the maintenance of the Cold War. Throughout this study I emphasise that ex...

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Main Author: Bryant, Christopher William
Published: University of Edinburgh 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642157