CONTENTS

Note

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