The Last Empire
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780349115283
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 01 Jul 2002
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
ISBN: 9780349115283
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 01 Jul 2002
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
