Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Quarter bound in black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. Several pages dog-eared, else fine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows only light shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 181 pp

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Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War comes award-winning Gore Vidal's long-awaited conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy. Now, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California" Vidal writes, "has an American government been so nakedly predatory." Bush's apparent invincibility, and what he might or might not know--especially about those new "black box" voting machines being installed all over the country--is one of the central themes of "State of the Union 2004," a magnificent and witty Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the "war on dandruff," where America is an "Enron-Pentagon prison," a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department. Collected in this volume are Vidal's earlier State of the Union addresses, a tradition inaugurated on the David Susskind show in the early seventies as a counterpoint to "whoever happened to be president."

Product Info

ISBN: 1560255854

ISBN-13: 9781560255857

Publisher: Nation Books

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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