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 79
... matters , like impeachment , on his mind . • • ' Reading a little now , I realize how little I knew , for all my emotional involvement , about the war itself , a war after all like other wars . . ' But it was not like other wars . No matter ...
... matters , like impeachment , on his mind . • • ' Reading a little now , I realize how little I knew , for all my emotional involvement , about the war itself , a war after all like other wars . . ' But it was not like other wars . No matter ...
Page 91
... matter how absurd ? Even ' the good child ' must be appalled by the slaughter of Jesse and his fellow believers by a ... matters who's doing the organizing ... Joe Stalin ... or our bumbling American pols . I'll take the pols every time ...
... matter how absurd ? Even ' the good child ' must be appalled by the slaughter of Jesse and his fellow believers by a ... matters who's doing the organizing ... Joe Stalin ... or our bumbling American pols . I'll take the pols every time ...
Page 157
... matter how great Clinton's plurality or majority , he now knows , even if we don't , that he will not be allowed to do much of anything at home . He doesn't find economics as boring as Nixon did , because he knows more about such things ...
... matter how great Clinton's plurality or majority , he now knows , even if we don't , that he will not be allowed to do much of anything at home . He doesn't find economics as boring as Nixon did , because he knows more about such things ...
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