CONTENTS
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I.
Democratic Vistas
Goat Song: Unanswered Questions—Before, During, After 9/11
Menandering Toward Armageddon
II.
Three Lies to Rule By
Japanese Intentions in the Second World War
How We Missed the Saturday Dance
The Last Empire
In the Lair of the Octopus
Mickey Mouse, Historian
III.
With Extreme Prejudice
The Union of the State
The Last Defender of the American Republic?: An Interview with Gore Vidal by Marc Cooper