Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560257448)

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."

Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN-10: 156025744X
ISBN-13: 9781560257448
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 105