First Vintage Books Edition, April 1983

Copyright © 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 by Gore Vidal

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada

Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Random House, Inc. in 1982. Most of the essays have been previously published in the following publications: Esquire, Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, and Playboy. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: The Nation: “Some Jews and the Gays” by Gore Vidal, from The Nation, November 14, 1981. Reprinted by permission. New Statesman: “He Dwells with Beauty” by Gore Vidal, from New Statesman, March 17, 1978. Reprinted by permission.

Library of Congress in Publication Data

Vidal, Gore, 1925-

The second American revolution and other essays

(1976-1982)

I. Title.

PS3543.126S28    1983    814′.54     82-40425

ISBN 0-394-71 379-6 (pbk.)

Ebook ISBN 9780525565826

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