Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia - Couverture rigide

Vidal, Gore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560255854 ISBN 13 : 9781560255857

Editeur : Nation Books, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Vidal Gore

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nation Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1560255854
• ISBN 13: 9781560255857
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208