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The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982

by Gore Vidal · 1982 · 278 pages

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This collection of essays includes Vidal's noted pieces on Theodore Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and on the need for a new constitutional convention and ranges across a wide spectrum of social, political, and literary matters.

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Subject
historypolitics
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 278 pages
Form
essays

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