80,000 customers in a day. Cleaning crews work 17 of 24 hours. 134 stores in one place, and 60 acres set aside for parking. By 1982 shopping malls had begun to sweep up vast amounts of American commerce, an assault…
‘GORE VIDAL: THE MAN WHO SAID NO’: On the ’82 Campaign Trail
By Gregory Crofton Gore Vidal, a well-known, openly gay, historical writer and political commentator, decided to run for the United States Senate to represent California in 1982. (His great-grandfather served as a U.S. senator from Oklahoma in the 1920s and…