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The last empire : essays 1992-2000 / Gore Vidal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Doubleday, c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 465 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0385501544
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3543.I26 L37 2001
Contents:
Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man -- Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age -- Lost New York -- The romance of Sinclair Lewis -- Twain on the grand tour -- Reply to a critic -- Twain's letters -- Rabbit's own burrow -- A note on The city and the pillar and Thomas Mann -- Anthony Burgess -- Pride -- Lindbergh : the eagle is grounded -- Sinatra -- C.P. Cavafy -- George -- Amistad -- FDR : love on the Hudson -- Wiretapping the oval office -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Truman -- Hersh's JFK -- Nixon R.I.P. -- Clinton-Gore I -- Bedfellows make strange politics -- Clinton-Gore II -- Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior -- Kopkind -- Bad history -- Blair -- How we missed the Saturday dance -- The last empire -- In the lair of the octopus -- With extreme prejudice -- Time for a people's convention -- The union of the state -- Mickey Mouse, historian -- U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S. -- Race against time -- Chaos -- Shredding the Bill of Rights -- The new theocrats -- Coup de Starr -- Starr conspiracy -- Birds and bees and Clinton -- A letter to be delivered -- Democratic vistas -- Three lies to rule by -- Japanese intentions in the second World War.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A new collection of provocative, witty and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal, the greatest living American man of letters and one of the finest essayists of the twentieth (and twenty-first) century. The Last Empireis Gore Vidal's ninth collection of essays in the course of his distinguished literary career. As in the previous volumes, which include the 1993 National Book Award-winningUnited States: Essays 1952-1992, Vidal displays unparalleled range and inimitable style as he deals with matters literary, historical, personal, and political. There are warm (and shrewd) appreciations of Edmund Wilson, Dawn Powell, Sinclair Lewis, and Mark Twain; polemical observations on the major figures and (as he sees it) deplorable developments in American politics, Bill Clinton, FDR, JFK, his cousin Al Gore, the CIA and the American empire, the global reach of media conglomerates, and the United States' disdain for the UN, as well as fascinating autobiographical vignettes. Pieces that have already generated shock waves include his essay in dispraise of the works of John Updike, his controversial defense of Charles Lindbergh, and his attack on the national security state that first appeared inVanity Fair. Nobody makes the fur fly in a more elegant and civilized fashion than Gore Vidal. He is our indispensable man.

Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man -- Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age -- Lost New York -- The romance of Sinclair Lewis -- Twain on the grand tour -- Reply to a critic -- Twain's letters -- Rabbit's own burrow -- A note on The city and the pillar and Thomas Mann -- Anthony Burgess -- Pride -- Lindbergh : the eagle is grounded -- Sinatra -- C.P. Cavafy -- George -- Amistad -- FDR : love on the Hudson -- Wiretapping the oval office -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Truman -- Hersh's JFK -- Nixon R.I.P. -- Clinton-Gore I -- Bedfellows make strange politics -- Clinton-Gore II -- Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior -- Kopkind -- Bad history -- Blair -- How we missed the Saturday dance -- The last empire -- In the lair of the octopus -- With extreme prejudice -- Time for a people's convention -- The union of the state -- Mickey Mouse, historian -- U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S. -- Race against time -- Chaos -- Shredding the Bill of Rights -- The new theocrats -- Coup de Starr -- Starr conspiracy -- Birds and bees and Clinton -- A letter to be delivered -- Democratic vistas -- Three lies to rule by -- Japanese intentions in the second World War.

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