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By Charles McGrath / The Bulletin
August 2, 2012
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said.
Vidal was, at the....