Gore Vidal is the last survivor of the great post-war generation of American novelists that included Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller and Saul Bellow. At 82 he is still one of the world's finest essayists on socio-political, sexual, historical and literary themes - a true radical and polymath. Melvyn Bragg, who last interviewed Vidal some twenty years ago when he lived in Italy, meets him in Los Angeles where he has recently returned to live.
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