Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

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PublicAffairs, 27. apr. 2009 - 208 síður
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."
 

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2004
3
2 The Privatizing of the American Election
13
II
39
3 The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas
41
4 A Cheerful Response
55
5 Armageddon?
61
6 Notes on Our Patriarchal State
79
7 The National Security State
95
1980
103
9 The Second American Revolution
123
III
159
10 We Are the Patriots
161
Election 2004
169
Index
173
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Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Winner of the National Book Award for United Sates: essays 1952-92, Vidal lives in Los Angeles.

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