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

Very brave, very unstructured, very eye-opening, extremely passionate perusal of state as it is in the modern times. Q: Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of proper......more

Gore Vidal was outraged when he wrote this book, as well he should have been. Anger can be a good thing in driving a person to take (peaceful) action, particularly to speak out as is our primary right as free people. The style of writing used by Vidal shows he is indignant, and I can't find fault wit......more

I saw Gore Vidal talking about this book a while back and realized a good deal of what he is saying mirrored my own thoughts about our country and its government, in particular. I'd wager a lot of Americans feel the same way but we seem to have lost our voice and our willingness to question our gove......more

It isn't enough to read this book and say it's interesting or eye-opening. I suspect that Vidal knew that much of what he wrote would be criticized as left-wing or un-American. But what he was telling us is far more patriotic than silence; he saw the loss of our freedoms as the death-knell of our de......more

"The American People are as devoted to the idea of sin and its punishment as they are to making money" Gore Vidal has some absolute bangers in this book. It at times feels very current for the fact that it was written 20 years ago, with the notable exception of his takes on airplane travel. This come......more