About the book: 2001 / The historical novel "Emperor Julian" by the famous American writer Gore Vidal (b. 1925) tells how the history of mankind almost turned back .For evil or for good? A friend of J.F. Kennedy, Vidal writes his “ideal leader” primarily from him. Julian Augustus (332-363), the Roman emperor who almost turned history back, remained for centuries under the name Apostate (or Apostate). Russian writer D.S. Merezhkovsky included a novel about him in the trilogy “Christ and Antichrist”. And the brilliant American paradoxist Gore Vidal offered his version of his fate.