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Armageddon?

by Gore Vidal · 1987

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This collection of essays examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan. Vidal also reminisces about his patrician childhood and writers past and present such as Tennessee Williams, Anthony Burgess, Henry James and William Dean Howells.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 256 pages
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