United States: Essays 1952-1992

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From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era Gore Vidals United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging acute and original literary intelligence of the postWorld War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work. From the Trade Paperback edition.