Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
by Gore Vidal

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
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Author: Gore Vidal
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-10
ISBN: 156025405X
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Nation Books

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Book Review: America's most astute political observer
Summary: 5 Stars

Gore Vidal is our most astute political observer and a brilliant writer. He's perhaps the 20th century's last great essayist. His insights about the rotten state of America's governance and the shredding of the Constitution are incisive. Definitely worth reading and thinking about.

Summary of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of "evil-doers?" "Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age." ? Washington Post "Our greatest living man of letters."?Boston Globe "Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe."?Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books

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