Copyright © 2008 by Gore Vidal
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“Novelists and Critics of the 1940s,” “Tarzan Revisited,” “The Top Ten Best-Sellers,” “French Letters: Theories of the New Novel,” “American Plastic,” “Calvino’s Novels,” “The Hacks of Academe,” “Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self,” “Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes,” “William Dean Howells,” “Dawn Powell: The American Writer,” “Montaigne,” “Passage to Egypt” (originally published as “Nassar’s Egypt”), “Pornography,” “The Holy Family,” “Homage to Daniel Shays,” “Pink Triangle and Yellow Star,” “Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy,” “The Second American Revolution,” “The National Security State,” and “Monotheism and Its Discontents” were published in United States: Essays 1952–1992 by Gore Vidal (Random House: New York), 1993
“Rabbit’s Own Burrow” was published in The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal (Doubleday: New York), 2001.
“Black Tuesday” was originally published as “September 11, 2001 (A Tuesday)” in Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (Nation Books: New York), 2002.
“State of the Union, 2004” was originally published in the September 13, 2004, issue of The Nation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vidal, Gore, 1925–
[Essays. Selections]
The selected essays of Gore Vidal / by Gore Vidal; edited by Jay Parini.—1st ed.
p. cm.
I. Parini, Jay. II. Title.
PS3543.I26A6 2008
814'.54—dc22
2008013517
eISBN: 978-0-385-52682-1
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