|
Product Description
Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War comes award-winning Gore Vidal's long-awaited conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy. Now, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California" Vidal writes, "has an American government been so nakedly predatory." Bush's apparent invincibility, and what he might or might not know—especially about those new "black box" voting machines being installed all over the country—is one of the central themes of "State of the Union 2004," a magnificent and witty Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the "war on dandruff," where America is an "Enron-Pentagon prison," a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department. Collected in this volume are Vidal's earlier State of the Union addresses, a tradition inaugurated on the David Susskind show in the early seventies as a counterpoint to "whoever happened to be president."
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series)
- The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
- The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
- I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener
- Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
- Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America
- Dreaming War (Nation Books)
- United States: Essays 1952-1992
- Creation
- America: The Farewell Tour
*If this is not the "Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Nation Books)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 25, 2024 21:13 +08.