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Gore Vidal Duluth
Random House 0394527380 / 9780394527383 Hardcover Good
0394527380 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Vidal, Gore Duluth by Vidal, Gore by Vidal, Gore
NY, Random House, 1983, 1st edition Good
Book is a 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" hard cover with blue cloth boards, 214 pages Condition: book is good and ex library copy so there is a pocket and library stamp on the front end page and also the top and bottom page edges are stamped. If one looks carefully tape residue can be seen on the out boards and there are a couple of spots where it can be seen on the end pages Dust jacket: dust jacket is very good some minor creases at the bottom edge. NY, Random House, 1983, 1st edition. Pretty funny book, really puts Duluth on the Map!
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Gore Vidal Empire
Ballantine Books 0345354729 / 9780345354723 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0345354729 Mass Market Paperback. Good. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid copy. General Used condition.
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Gore Vidal Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Nation Books 2005 156025744X / 9781560257448 Trade Paperback New New
156025744X From Publishers Weekly The commercial success of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War shows that Vidal's Jeffersonian anti-imperialism is fashionable again with the left wing of the book-buying public. In time for the election season, Vidal has dashed off three rambling anti-Bush diatribes and collected eight articles from the Nation, Esquire and other magazines, written from 1975 to 2004. Many of the selections take the form of mock State of the Union addresses, and while Vidal's consistency over the years is admirable, reading 11 variants of the same stump speech becomes monotonous. Vidal typically includes denunciations of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Truman for their part in constructing America's "National Security State." He believes that the Cold Warriors invented a phony Communist bogeyman and that "Israeli fifth columnists" such as Norman Podhoretz control America's policy in the Middle East. Vidal would end the war on drugs and nationalize health care and natural resources. And he would change the Constitution to make America a parliamentary democracy and break the monopoly of what he calls the "Property party," with "its two wings: Republican and Democrat." Vidal is at his most convincing and entertaining when he's jeering at democratic pieties about America, which he believes is actually an oligarchy run by a military-industrial-financial elite that he calls "the bank." Vidal may be in tune with the zeitgeist again because his polemical writing resembles the new blogger punditry: conversational, tart, fervent, digressive, susceptible to idiosyncratic theories but capable of worthwhile provocations. Copyright ?© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Like Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (2002) and Dreaming War (2003), this final volume in Vidal's trilogy attacking the "Cheney-Bush junta" contains some new analysis padded out by previously published essays (most of these are from the 1980s). This time, Vidal tackles the American imperial impulse, placing the Cheney-Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the context of America's 1846 seizure of California and the later annexation of colonies in the Pacific. Vidal's vast knowledge of American history and his blazing wit set him apart from the other Bush bashers, and even his old stuff will be fun to read for those sharing his point of view. Some of the material is dated, though, such as an analysis from 1985 of Reagan's Christian apocalypticism, which never really gets connected to imperial America or its current leaders. And the book's organization leaves something to be desired; some observations are repeated almost verbatim 100 pages apart. Still, Vidal's fierce, vitriolic voice remains relevant. The highlight of the book is the opening essay, a scathing critique of what Vidal calls Cheney-Bush's "hijacking" of the election and their subsequent administration, and so it's a bit disappointing that most of the material here is older. Vidal's historical analysis is often fascinating, but fellow Bush-bashers will wish for more current intelligence. John Green Copyright ?© American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description 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." CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 30 reviews) Bottom Line: '...a MUST READ for patriotic Americans...' This is an outstanding book from an insightful and wise author. It should be required reading for all Americans. Recommend also: 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace' and 'Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series)' ...both by Gore Vidal. Also, see the documentary film 'Why We Fight'. November 13, 2007 A Real Patriot Mr. Gore has an in depth and uncanny view of American Politics and he is right on. Would that we could have leaders such as Mr. Gore running the Country. I can only dream of what could have been while I suffer the ineptitude and greed of modern day politicians. We need more like Mr. Gore who can stir the masses and demand change. August 18, 2007 I'm a Believer I'm over 55 and I thought I knew about our government and about Gore Vidal. 40 years ago, I dismissed him as a "queer", as he was called by William F. Buckley. Big mistake. I don't believe everything I read and I'm not easily impressed. But after reading "Imperial America", now I'm a believer in what Gore Vidal has been saying for a very long time- that America is no longer a Republic, but an Empire and that the interests of "The People" do not drive our elected officials. This book will make you feel like the wool the government has been pulling over your eyes for the past 50 years is 50% dacron! Required reading for every concerned American- I wonder how many are out there. June 01, 2007 Thought provoking It seems almost inevitable that associated with every fact is a level of fiction. So rather than argue "the facts" or regurgitate them, let us instead argue their relevancy to the state of American society today. In that vein, this book was personally very relevant. Although I fail to agree with every problem cited and/or proposals for their solution, I wholeheartedly agree with its overall assessment for our malaise. This book expresses an intelligent and insightful perspective of our state of American governance. To ignore this message because we do not agree with all it says or how it says it does us a disservice. Even though three quarters of the book is composed of articles published during the eighties, I feel collectively that they are no less relevant today then they were then. Reading this book has broadened my perspective and I encourage everyone to read it. April 12, 2007 In a word...Brilliant !! Gore Vidal does a brilliant job at pointing out how our "Republic" has turned into an Empire as expansive and militaristic as Rome in the first century and Britain in the nineteenth. He has a keen eye and is a wonderful observer. It is amazing that more Americans will not wake up and smell the coffee. Face it, America is an Empire! America is the 21st century Rome! And Mr. Vidal does a fantastic job at describing and detailing how we have arrived at as the Empire that we are. However, there is one discrepancy that I have with Mr. Vidal's thesis. Mr. Vidal, who is very patriotic, does his best to try and explain ways in which the American Empire can return to a Republic. In other words, he does a good job at explaining that the world is round (that America is an Empire)but still has the attitude that it is flat (that is still Republic in spirit and will become a Republic once again). I believe that the American Empire will fall very soon - within a matter of five years - as the Prophet Joseph Smith predicted in Nauvoo. I believe that the only stable institution that can and will survive the coming anarchy (see Robert D. Kaplan's book) is the theocratic Kingdom of God (see my personal portfolio). As Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire, said it best, "I disagree with what comes out of you pen, but I would defend to the death your right to write it." As I said before, I believe that Mr. Vidal does a great job at defining that America is an Empire, but that is it. I think that it is too late for the American Empire. It will crash and burn HARD! Mind you, I did not say the people. I believe completely that the people living in the American Empire, and the people in the rest of the world for that matter, can easily repent and return to Jesus Christ the Lord. So all in all, a great observation on the American Empire. Four out of five stars. March 19, 2007 College Quarterly Fall 2005 - Volume 8 Number 4 Reviews Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia Gore Vidal New York: Nation Books, 2004. Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty Gore Vidal, by most standards, is a class traitor. A Washington insider, he was raised by his grand-father Thomas P. Gore, the United States Senator from Oklahoma. A member of the Kennedy clan, he was Jackie?s step-brother. A well-connected southerner, he is a distant cousin of Jimmy Carter and claims a blood relationship to former U.S. Vice-President, Al Gore. Gore Vidal is also militant anti-imperialist, a fierce critic of American society and a self-described radical, though he means by this that he is a genuine conservative. He wishes that the USA would return to its roots and restore the values and possibilities of its early republican heritage. Gore Vidal has dabbled in politics as a twice-defeated aspirant congressman. He remains prouder of his first try when he ran as a Democrat in a traditional Republican district in upstate New York where he gathered more support than any Democrat had done in fifty years and more than his presidential ballot-mate, John F. Kennedy. The year was 1960. Vidal, of course, has been far more effective as a political writer than a practical politician. He has lived by his pen for well over fifty of his eighty years. His pen has made him rich. At just twenty-one, he was among the first of an inspired group of veterans to produce a novel based on their World War II experiences. The group included James Jones (From Here to Eternity), Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) and eventually Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five). Vidal?s book was Williwaw. It has been followed by at least fifty more books, seven plays and numerous television and film scripts (notably Ben-Hur, though a studio dispute robbed him of authorial credit). His historical novels, Burr (1973) and Lincoln (1976) remain my favorites among his fiction, and his main essay collections, United States (1993) and The Last Empire (2001), are superb. Vidal?s view of American history is sufficiently controversial to have him all but blacklisted from the mainstream US broadcast media. (As literacy rates plummet, he is welcome to publish books, presumably on the assumption that anyone who would read them is not likely to be recruited by the religious right anyway, and publishers? profits can legitimately rise even on the sale of ideologically dangerous material). Vidal argues that the overseas American Empire began in earnest with ?Teddy? Roosevelt?s clever little war against Spain that won the US its first important colonies?Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He also speaks of ?shredding? the Bill of Rights?a process that launched by Harry Truman?s creation of the ?national security state.? His loathing of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and both president Bushes is limitless?and he doesn?t think much of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton either. To anyone already inclined to regard the United States as a pseudo-democracy governed by a single political party with ?two right wings? (amusingly called Republicans and Democrats), Vidal?s keen wit, skillful phrasing and relentless argument will amuse and occasionally amaze. Those disinclined to such a view will quickly experience apoplexy. His disdain for organized (or disorganized) religion, his unwillingness to compromise in his analysis of the American plutocracy and his goading of the supine journalists, academics and other ?opinion leaders? who gull and lull the unhappy citizenry into somnambulance are not unparalleled (the essays of Lewis Lapham, another ?class traitor? and publisher of Harper?s magazine are similarly well informed and often equally stinging), but his darts are unusually lethal and very well-aimed. If Gore Vidal is unhappy, it is because he is wholly committed to concepts such as truth, honor, justice and democracy, and he is unwilling to settle for fraudulent goods. He is most distressed by the degree to which the US Constitution has been sacked in the interest of an ideology of Empire that is so badly managed that many of its citizens are denied basic education and health care, its middle class is declining precipitously, its economic infrastructure is in disarray and it is now the largest debtor nation in human history. A ?small-r? Republican, Vidal thinks that the ?war on terror? is as nonsensical as a ?war on dandruff,? but that it is incalculably more dangerous for the country he plainly loves. With this book, the last in a trilogy of short collections that include Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (2002) and Dreaming War (2002), he concludes his sly, sardonic inquiry into the political pathology of the USA. The contents were composed over three decades, and it is striking to see how well he anticipated the problems of the new millennium while living in the old, how easily he predicted the broad outlines of the Bush 43 administration while commenting on Bush 41, and how firm is his moral compass as he negotiates his way through the first decade of the 21st century. Imperial America is not Gore Vidal?s best work, but it is an engaging introduction to a political pundit whose approach, while hard for some to accept, is powerful and becomes even harder to jettison once its clarity and wisdom are even provisionally acknowledged. Moreover, for those who complain that critics are quick to carp but quiet when constructive comments are called for, Vidal has a surprise. He reminds us that the venerable founders of his republic did not expect their Constitution to remain unaltered. It would, they thought, have to be continually renewed. Recalling the words of Thomas Jefferson, Vidal advises that, when all else fails, ?the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.? Vidal hopes that the US will avoid the fate of all tyrannies. He therefore calls, in the tradition of his country, for a new Constitutional Convention. It is not a novel thought. In 1787, Benjamin Franklin observed, at the Convention that was asked to ratify the original Constitution, that the sacred document was deeply flawed. He wrote that it would do for a time, but that it could ?only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.? Says Vidal: ?Think of Enron.? Think ?of chads and butterfly ballots.? Think also that less than half of the US citizens bother to vote, that the US now trails Luxemburg, Norway and Switzerland in raw per capita income (with nothing like the social programs in those or other European countries), that the US government spends about two-thirds of its revenue of what it terms ?defense,? that (again) American literacy rates are low among industrial countries and are falling further behind while American poverty rates are climbing, and that all these uneasy markers must be seen in the context of a national debt that passed the $8 trillion level on 18 October, 2005 and reached $8,003,897,406,911.24 by the end of the day, and continues to climb by an average of $2.83 billion (US) per day at a time when the chief economic policy initiative of the second Bush administration is a further tax reduction for the rich. It may not be always be pleasant to listen to Gore Vidal, but few others seem to grasp such simple truths. Howard A. Doughty teaches in the Faculty of Applied Arts and Health Sciences at Seneca College in King City, Ontario. He can be reached at .
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Gore Vidal Lincoln
Ballantine Books 034531221X / 9780345312211 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good
034531221X Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. A Nice Clean Copy. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Gore Vidal The Golden Age: A Novel
New York Doubleday 2000 0385500750 / 9780385500753 First Edition/first Printing PAPERBACK Good
0385500750 ISBN: 0385500750 Hardcover with dustjacket, Good/Good Doubleday, First Edition, c. 2000, gray bds. w/d.j, 467pp., (lt.shelf wear, corners bumped, text clean, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing). Ex-Library. Historical Fiction.HURRAH FOR VIDAL'S LAST HURRAH, November 10, 2000Reviewer: Edward Garea "Edward Garea" (Branchville, New Jersey United States) - There is an old saying that when it's time to go out, go out with a bang. This is exactly what Gore Vidal does in this, the last novel in his "American Chronicles" series. An updating and rewriting of his earlier novel, "Washington, D.C.," "The Golden Age" shifts its focus to the nation as a whole and the chain of events that involved us in World War 2 and the Cold War. Gossipy and inclusive rather than pedantic and exclusive (as many historical novels tend to be), Vidal gives the reader the view of an insider, partially because he had grown up on the fringes of that inside. Among the many historical character the reader meets in the pages of the novel is none other than Gore Vidal himself. This should be no surprise as Vidal is one of the most autobiographical of American authors, his memoir "Palimpsest" reading almost like a novel. Non-Vidal fans may not like the Calvino-esque ending, but those among us who love Vidal's writings will feel more than a touch of sadness at the end. More entertaining than "Empire" or "Hollywood," "The Golden Age" belongs on the shelf of all serious readers.
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