Description: An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide.
Review Quotes: "Ultimately, for mass communication historians, Frank's book primarily is a specific wake-up call about the possibilities of studying novelists as news sources of many times and even as newsworthy figures, and a general wake-up call about the lack of research (at least in the United States because Europe is far ahead here) on journalism, other mass media, and intellectuals ('public' or not)."--Dane S. Claussen, Journalism History