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Presents twenty-three new essays that examine the leadership of present-day America, from presidents to born-again Christians, as well as Vidal's thoughts on writers of today and yesteryear.
pt. 1. At home in Washington, D.C. ; On flying ; Frederic Prokosch : the European connection ; Tennessee Williams : someone to laugh at the squares with ; Richard Nixon : not The best man's best man ; Hollywood! ; Ronnie and Nancy : a life in pictures ; Armageddon? ; The day the American Empire ran out of gas ; A cheerful response ; Ollie ; The national security state ; Mongolia! ; At home in a Roman street -- pt. 2. The bookchat of Henry James ; William Dean Howells ; The golden bowl of Hewnry James ; Logan Pearsall Smith loves the adverb ; Oscar Wilde : on the skids again ; Paul Bowles's stories ; Calvino's death ; Why I am eight years younger than Anthony Burgess ; Dawn Powell : the American writer ; How I do what I do if not why.
Published in somewhat different form in 1987 by André Deutsch, London, under title: Armageddon? : essays, 1983-1987.
Source: Copyright deposit, Mar. 1, 1989.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author.
PRO Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)