Growing Up With Gore Vidal

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Editor’s note: In this Truthdig exclusive excerpt from his just-released book, Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, National Book Award-winning author Gore Vidal recounts Depression-era episodes of his life involving his grandfather T.P. Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, along with a political awakening that followed young Vidal’s viewing of “The Prince and the Pauper.”