Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated - Softcover

Vidal, Gore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156025405X ISBN 13: 9781560254058

Publisher: Nation Books, 2002

Synopsis

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of "evil-doers?" Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age. - Washington Post Our greatest living man of letters. - Boston Globe Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe. - Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books.

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Review:

‘A figure whose vibrant verbal presence has itself been an essential of American cultural life for the past fifty-odd years.’ -- The Times Literary Supplement

‘Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation.’ -- The Guardian

‘The master essayist of our age.’ -- Washington Post

‘There is no one quite like him, and if you do not know his work you should.’ -- The Times

‘Vidal’s combination of learning, wit and disdain gets into your blood. He can change the way you think.’ -- The Observer

About the Author:

Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 156025405X
• ISBN 13: 9781560254058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175