Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace How We Got to Be So Hated

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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 catalogueed nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centrepiece 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

Book information

ISBN: 9781560254058
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Bold Type Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 814.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 113g
Height: 194mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 13mm