Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States : Essays 1992-1997This is the first new Gore Vidal collection since Armageddon and A View From the Diners Club. Among the subjects covered are Mark Twain, John Updike, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman and George Washington. ' |
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Page 201
... Europe has changed more in the past fifty years than in the previous 500. Whether this is good or bad is irrelevant . It is . Now , here at home , people fret about inva- sions from the Hispanic world , from Haiti , from the boat people ...
... Europe has changed more in the past fifty years than in the previous 500. Whether this is good or bad is irrelevant . It is . Now , here at home , people fret about inva- sions from the Hispanic world , from Haiti , from the boat people ...
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... Europe began as the relatively empty , uncivilized Wild West of Asia . Then the Americans became the Wild West of Europe . Now the sun , setting in our West , is rising once more in the East . This really hurt Mudd , and he couldn't ...
... Europe began as the relatively empty , uncivilized Wild West of Asia . Then the Americans became the Wild West of Europe . Now the sun , setting in our West , is rising once more in the East . This really hurt Mudd , and he couldn't ...
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... Europe . Does a day pass that one does not give at least a fleeting thought to the Emperor Otto III and to Pope Sylvester II ? I should highly doubt it . After all , they are an attractive couple ; a boy emperor and his old teacher ...
... Europe . Does a day pass that one does not give at least a fleeting thought to the Emperor Otto III and to Pope Sylvester II ? I should highly doubt it . After all , they are an attractive couple ; a boy emperor and his old teacher ...
Contents
NineteenthCentury Man | 3 |
Queen of the Golden Age | 16 |
The Romance of Sinclair Lewis | 30 |
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