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 United States: Essays 1952-1992
by Gore Vidal From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal's United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post - World War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work. "In 114 essays written over a period of forty years, Gore Vidal has shown himself to be a masterly, learned, and percipient observer of an unparalleled range of subjects. United States: Essays, 1952-1992 assesses such diverse matters as modern French fiction, the Kennedys, underappreciated writers like Thomas Love Peacock, and the American attitude toward sex. He writes tenderly of authors and people he cherishes-Eleanor Roosevelt, Tennessee Williams, William Dean Howells. Whatever his subject, he addresses it with an artist's resonant appreciation, a scholar's conscience, and the persuasive powers of a great essayist. "
--Citation for the 1993 National Book Award "Gore Vidal, essayist; so good that we cannot do without him. He is a treasure of the state. "
--R. W. B. Lewis, New York Times Book Review  (5/01)
ZH8066 United States: Essays 1952-1992 $24.95
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