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To: spiral3 who wrote (142495)	8/4/2004 2:47:47 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 281500

\| \| Trash Can \| Inbox Dear Email Nation Subscriber, The Toronto Globe and Mail recently described Gore Vidal as our "Contrarian in Chief." Though most well-known for his award-winning historical novels, Vidal's searing political essays have been celebrated--and condemned--nationwide and internationally. Now Nation Books has published a series of these essays--"Imperial America"--as the conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy that began with "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace." His most devastating exploration of contemporary America to date, "Imperial America" skewers the "ever reckless Cheney-Bush junta" which has created the Department of Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, and embarked upon a series of unnecessary wars--to the extent that they seem not to care about "the decent opinion of mankind." Continuing a tradition Vidal inaugurated on The David Susskind Show in the early seventies, where Vidal's "real" State of the Union was a running counterpoint to "whoever happened to be President," Vidal performs an autopsy on the American republic, where "we have ceased to be a nation under law but a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns." To buy a copy of Imperial America: nationbooks.org And read a collection of Vidal's past Nation articles: thenation.com You can also visit the Nation Books site for info on a host of new and forthcoming titles by Ian Williams, Jonathan Schell, John Sayles and many others. nationbooks.org And, if you're in New York City, looking for something interesting to do TONIGHT, check out a free reading by Nation Books author and Nation UN correspondent Ian Williams at 7:30 at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble. He'll be reading selections from and signing copies of his new Nation Book, "Deserter: Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans and His Past."