![]() He circulates and reiterates this numerous ways, but what it basically means here is that since 1950 or so, the US has taken on trillions in debt in order to fight the cold war (something that Gore Vidal thinks was particularly necessary nor ever reached any actual crisis level) and the result is a state with no social safety net, deep cultural depression, no real infrastructure to speak of, and the intense widening of the wealth gap (what a loon!). There’s a handful of long essays that discuss the current state and decline of American Empire, which Gore Vidal is deeply and passionately critical of, especially what sees as the bankrupting of American life in order to pay for the Defense budget for the last 80 years. ![]() There’s readings of John Updike’s contemporary writing, there’s a kind of political obituary of Timothy McVeigh, and there’s numerous literary obituaries of people like Anthony Burgess, Charles Lindbergh, and Frank Sinatra. Like the large collection United States, this book covers literary, political, and personal topics, sometimes all at once. ![]() He did publish some smaller texts later, and a kind of end of life memoir before he died, but this is probably the last sizeable work of his before his death in 2012. This last significant collection of essays by Vidal was published in 2001 around the inauguration of George W Bush. ![]() ![]() Like man a ground soldier, General de Gaulle was drawn to maritime metaphors.” ![]()
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