SOURCE: “Is Nothing Sacred?,” in Washington Post Book World, September 20, 1992, p. 2.

In the following review, Greeley concludes that Live from Golgotha is a patently blasphemous book that will not appeal to faithful readers.

Congressman Newt Gingrich did not notably weaken the Democratic ticket, it would seem, by his suggestion that the Democrats are to blame for l’affaire Woody Allen. But he and his colleagues Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm might be able to make something more out of the charge that the Democrats are responsible for Gore Vidal. Woody Allen is guilty only of what might be called quasi-incest and quasi-infidelity in a quasi-marriage. Vidal can fairly be charged with blasphemy.

If Christianity had not progressed at least somewhat from the Middle Ages, Live from Golgotha would have caused Vidal to have his eyes plucked out and be sentenced to the galleys for the rest...