The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 – 1982
By Gore Vidal
By Gore Vidal
Category: Literary Collections | Politics
Praeterita
Poe
What Lincoln Believed
Promised Land
Portrait of Johnny
The Subway Chronicles
Sidetracks
The Life of Kingsley Amis
The Rush for Second Place
Praise
“Reading The Second American Revolution is like following a canny hunting guide as he hacks his way through the jungle with a machete.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“In this book there are essays that are as fine as any essays written in recent years.” —The Chicago Tribune
“I can’t think of any writer more certain to have exactly the right opinion on absolutely everything.” —Thomas M. Disch, front page, The Washington Post Book World
“The American tradition of independent and curious learning is kept alive in the wit and the great expressiveness of Gore Vidal’s criticism.” —Citatoin of the National Book Critics Circle
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