How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore VidalNovelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years. In How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV, Marcie Frank provides a concise introduction to Vidal's life and work as she argues that the twentieth century shift from print to electronic media, particularly TV and film, has not only loomed large in