PalimpsestBy: Gore Vidal Series: Vintage International Vidal on Vidala great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject. A New York Times best American memoir In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path. Los Angeles Times Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and