The last empire : essays, 1992-2000 / Gore Vidal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

465 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 2002.

Summary:

Gore Vidal, winner of the National Book Award, once again proves himself a provocative contemporary American critic. In this far-ranging collection of essays, he brings his keen intellect to a wide range of subjects--from profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh, to provocative analyses of literary icons John Updike and Mark Twain.

Contents:

Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man

Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age

Lost New York

The romance of Sinclair Lewis

Twain on the grand tour

Reply to a critic

Twain's letters

Rabbit's own burrow

A note on "The City and the Pillar" and Thomas Mann

Anthony Burgess

Pride

Lindbergh: the eagle is grounded

Sinatra

C.P. Cavafy

George

Amistad

FDR: love on the Hudson

Wiretapping the Oval Office

Clare Boothe Luce

Truman

Hersh's JFK

Nixon R.I.P.

Clinton-Gore I

Bedfellows make strange politics

Clinton-Gore II

Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior

Kopkind

Bad history

Blair

How we missed the Saturday dance

The last empire

In the lair of the octopus

With extreme prejudice

Time for a people's convention

The union of the state

Mickey Mouse, historian

U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S.

Race against time

Chaos

Shredding the Bill of Rights

The new theocrats

Coup de Starr

Starr conspiracy

Birds and bees and Clinton

A letter to be delivered

Democratic vistas

Three lies to rule by

Japanese intentions in the second World War.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c2001.

ISBN:

037572639X

9780375726392

OCLC:

50128857