Gore Vidal
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United States: Essays, 1952-1992
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal’s reputation as “America’s finest essayist” is an enduring one. Vidal has a gift for writing about the events of the moment with an astuteness usually reserved for the beneficiaries of hindsight, and about events of the past with the familiarity of someone who has just come out of the room where they were happening. This collection, chosen by the author from forty years of work, contains about two thirds of what he has published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states.
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Gore Vidal
Who is Kalki, and why is he planning to destroy the world—and everything in it? And if Kalki is a mystical legend, then why does his ultimate world include only a select few chosen to breed a new human race?
