Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia - Softcover

Vidal, Gore

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9781902636566: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

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ISBN 10: 1902636562 ISBN 13: 9781902636566

Publisher: Clairview Books, 2004

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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.

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

‘Vidal is at his most convincing and entertaining...’ -- Publisher’s Weekly

About the Author:

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-five novels, five plays, many screenplays, hundreds of essays, a memoir, and a historical work. He was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and brought up in Washington, D.C. He enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen and served as first mate on an army ship in the Bering Sea, where he wrote his first book, Williwaw. In the sixties, three praised novels established Vidal�s reputation as a bestselling author: Julian (1964); Washington, D.C. (1967); and Myra Breckinridge (1968). His collected essays, United States, won the National Book Award in 1993. In 1995 he published a memoir, Palimpsest, which the Sunday Times called �one of the best first-person accounts of this century we are likely to get�. Recently, volumes of his essays on current affairs have become bestsellers around the world.

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