Full name: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Author: Gore Vidal Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781560255857 1560255854

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." Similar books: Rogue State by William Blum Political Fictions by Joan Didion The Right Nation by John Micklethwait Dreaming War by Gore Vidal Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Gore Vidal Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky The Party Is Over by Mike Lofgren The Point of It All by Charles Krauthammer Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal The World As It Is by Chris Hedges A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn The Last Empire by Gore Vidal Blowback by Chalmers Johnson Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson