Gore vidal offers a series of essays analyzing the development of united states foreign policy and criticizing the countrys role in the world, its intervention in other lands, and the domestic impact of such. Gore vidal delivers chilling predictions of despotism a wry. Reflections on the united states of amnesia 2004 isbn 156025744x. The writings of ronald reagan that reveal his revo.
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Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which gore vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of civil war america with 20thcentury literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding abraham lincoln, including personal secretary john hay and cheming cabinet members william seward and salmon p. In his paperback bestseller perpetual war for perpetual peace, published last spring as a belated response to 911, gore vidal peeled the evildoer label off osama bin laden and timothy mcveigh and pasted it onto the bush administration. To help keep our communities safe, all our retail locations are temporarily closed until further notice. Vidal shows that bush s government represented the oil and gas industries and also incorporated some of their leading executives into the government. Reflections on the united states of amnesia by vidal, gore isbn.
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