Imperial America, Gore Vidal
Imperial America, Gore Vidal
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Imperial America
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/31/2019

Synopsis

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.”

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Curtis

It sure seems quaint in 2018 to read essays about what tyrants Reagan, and both Bushes were. What I'd give to go back then, and tell Mr. Vidal all about the feces-slinging insanity the current state of politics have arrived at, but clearly he was already envisioning this dreck. After completing thi......more

Goodreads review by John

The late Gore Vidal was a man of acerbic wit. Here he writes about the U.S. Constitution. Put together by rich men of property, the one percent of the day, it's not what it's cracked up to be even though many politicos today consider it the quintessential model for good government. The rich retain e......more

Goodreads review by Timothy

I found a lot of the Nixon and Reagan era articles to be very enlightening. I think Vidal exposes some intrinsic flaws within our government. I do think, though, that he may be a little heavy on the conspiracy theories. I think he may give a little too much credit to the powers that be in terms of t......more

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