[ Friday, November 12, 2004 ]
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War, Gore Vidal was described as the last ‘noble defender’ of the American republic. Now, in the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal presents his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. ‘Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California’, writes Vidal, ‘has an American government been so nakedly predatory.’
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