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by Gore Vidal

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In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California," he writes, "has an American government been so nakedly predatory."

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Gore Vidal has been described as the last 'noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America--those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue--by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots.

"Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic," he writes. "They are giving evidence of sanity, not cowardice, of adult thinking as distinguished from infantilism. They intend to preserve and defend the Republic. America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America."

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  • Title Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
  • Author Gore Vidal
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nation Books, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2005-08-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781560257448 / 156025744X
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - Foreign relations - 1989-
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.931

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  • Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 105

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Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Winner of the National Book Award for United Sates: essays 1952-92, Vidal lives in Los Angeles.
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