Gore Vidal, who died in July, was one of our greatest novelists and essayists – and yet he never went to college. In a 2007 interview I asked him why not.
“I graduated from [Phillips] Exeter,” he explained, “and I was aimed at going to Harvard. Instead I enlisted in [the Navy] in 1943. When I got out, in ’46, I thought, ‘I’ve spent all my life in institutions that I loathe, including my service in the [Navy] of the United States.’ I thought, ‘Shall I go for another four years?’ . . . … continued at Inside Higher Ed., HERE.
Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book?
Conversation with Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell Fred Vodoo: A Letter from Haiti.
“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America” conversation on The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC – 93.9FM, a,820 in New York City — also on Sirius/XM satellite radio. Dec. 11, 12:40-1:00pm in NYC. streaming audio & podcast:
“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.” Talk, with comment by Robin Kelley.
“How We Forgot the Cold War”: 
“How We Forgot the Cold War.”
Q&A with Oliver Stone, author of The Untold History of the United States.
“How We Forgot the Cold War”: History Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles.April 16, 2013.
Host Suzi Weissman talks about “How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America” with Jon Wiener:
