6/2/2023 0 Comments The last empire gore vidal![]() ![]() The later essays assembled in The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (coll 2001) are frequently apocalyptic, an intensification of his political and cultural pessimism also confirmed through several polemical collections published in the early twenty-first century, including Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated (coll 2002), Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (coll 2002), Imperial America: Reflections of the United States of America (coll 2004) and History of the National Security State & Vidal on America (coll 2014) edited by Paul Jay, where he hopes (for the last time) that "it is not the end of the road, even though there's every sign that it is not the yellow brick road up ahead." ![]() ![]() He is also of interest for several volumes of essays, beginning with Rocking the Boat (coll 1962) and assembled with new material as United States: Essays 1952-1992 (coll 1993), which contains responses to a large number of authors with entries in this encyclopedia, among them L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Ursula K Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Mark Twain. (1925-2012) US playwright, screenwriter, journalist and author, from the 1950s until 2003 resident in Italy, active from around 1945 though most of his work was nonfantastic, he is of interest in the context of this encyclopedia for a surprising range of works of the fantastic, exhibiting a cavalier intimacy with his material that makes it hard to think of him as a Mainstream Writer of SF. ![]()
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