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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Gore Vidal
3.9/5 ( ratings)
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."
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Release
August 17, 2005
ISBN
156025744X
ISBN 13
9781560257448

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Gore Vidal
3.9/5 ( ratings)
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."
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Release
August 17, 2005
ISBN
156025744X
ISBN 13
9781560257448

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