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Palimpsest - A Memoir written by Gore Vidal performed by Jeff Cummings on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

Palimpsest - A Memoir written by Gore Vidal performed by Jeff Cummings on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£19.99

This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal&;s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author&;s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters&;including the Kennedy family...

Imperial America - Reflections on the United States of Amnesia written by Gore Vidal performed by Jeff Cummings on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781543696301
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Politics
Duration:  337 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Gore Vidal
Narrator 1:  Jeff Cummings
Rarity:  Rare

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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.”

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