Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated Tapa blanda - 2002
de Gore Vidal
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The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed unpublishable in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11th and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City: these were simply the acts of "evil-doers." "None of these explanations made much sense, but our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own. That our ruling junta might have seriously provoked McVeigh and Osama was never dealt with. We consumers don't need to be told the why of anything. Certainly those of us who are in the why-business have a difficult time in getting through the corporate-sponsored American media, so I thought it useful to describe here the various provocations on our side that drove both bin Laden and McVeigh to such terrible acts." "The awesome physical damage Osama and company did us is as nothing compared to the knock-out blow to our vanishing liberties: the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991 combined with the recent request to Congress for additional special powers to wiretap without judicial order; to deport lawful permanent residents, visitors and undocumented immigrants without due process." Could it be that the greatest victim of the September 11th terror attackswill be American liberty?"Once alienated, " Vidal writes, "an 'unalienable right' is apt to be forever lost." Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.) noted that Vidal's "United States (Essays 1952-92) is one of the great American books of the twentieth century." It won the 1993 National Book Award."Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age." Washington Post "Our greatest living man of letters." -- Boston Globe"Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe." Harold Bloom, New York Review of Books
Detalles
- Título Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
- Autor Gore Vidal
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: first
- Páginas 174
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Bold Type Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2002-04-10
- ISBN 9781560254058 / 156025405X
- Peso 0.34 libras (0.15 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.68 x 5.01 x 0.5 pulgadas (19.51 x 12.73 x 1.27 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Terrorism - Government policy - United States, Political persecution - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2004540368
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.320
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 03/15/2002, Page 1188
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2002, Page 398
- New York Review of Books, 12/18/2003, Page 26
- New Yorker (The), 09/16/2002, Page 100
- Publishers Weekly, 04/01/2002, Page 63
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