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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

by Gore Vidal

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Publisher Comments:

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."

Synopsis:

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."

Product Details

ISBN:
9781560257448
Subtitle:
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Author:
Vidal, Gore
Publisher:
Nation Books
Subject:
Presidents
Subject:
National security
Subject:
United States - 21st Century
Subject:
History - United States - 21st Century
Subject:
History & Theory - General
Subject:
Government - U.S. Government
Subject:
HIS036070
Subject:
United States Politics and government.
Subject:
United States Foreign relations 1989-
Publication Date:
July 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
181
Dimensions:
8.52x6.28x.53 in. .39 lbs.

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