| Edition |
1st Vintage International ed. |
| Description |
465 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, c2001. |
| Contents |
Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man -- Dawn Powell : queen of the golden age -- Lost New York -- The romance of Sinclair Lewis -- Twain on the grand tour -- Reply to a critic -- Twain's letters -- Rabbit's own burrow -- A note on "The City and the pillar" and Thomas Mann -- Anthony Burgess -- Pride -- Lindbergh : the eagle is grounded -- Sinatra -- C. P. Cavafy -- George -- Amistad -- FDR : love on the Hudson -- Wiretapping the Oval Office -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Truman -- Hersh's JFK -- Nixon R.I.P. -- Clinton-Gore I -- Bedfellows make strange politics -- Clinton-Gore II -- Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior -- Kopkind -- Bad history -- Blair -- How we missed the Saturday dance -- The last empire -- In the lair of the octopus -- With extreme prejudice -- Time for a people's convention -- The union of the state -- Mickey Mouse, historian -- U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S. -- Race against time -- Chaos -- Shredding the Bill of Rights -- The new theocrats -- Coup de Starr -- Starr conspiracy -- Birds and bees and Clinton -- A letter to be delivered -- Democratic vistas -- Three lies to rule by -- Japanese intentions in the second World War. |
| Subject |
Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
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| ISBN |
037572639X (pbk.) |
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