Full name: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

Author: Gore Vidal Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Non Fiction, History, War/Military, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781560254058 156025405X

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 Similar books: Dreaming War by Gore Vidal The World As It Is by Chris Hedges The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer Rogue States by Noam Chomsky Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank Our Divided Political Heart by E. J. Dionne Jr. Right Is Wrong by Arianna Huffington The Future We Want by Sarah Leonard Interventions by Noam Chomsky Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Double Down by Mark Halperin Truth and Consequences by Keith Olbermann Hidden Agendas by John Pilger Imperial America by Gore Vidal The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Gore Vidal Drift by Rachel Maddow Ghost Wars by Steve Coll The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson