Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace How We Got

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor.

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.) noted that Vidal's "United States (Essays 1952-92) is one of the great American books of the twentieth century." It won the 1993 National Book Award.

Introduction

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September 11, 2001 (A Tuesday)

1

(42)

How I Became Interested in Timothy McVeigh and Vice Versa

43

(6)

Shredding the Bill of Rights

49

(34)

The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh

83

(40)

Fallout

123

(14)

The New Theocrats

137

(10)

A Letter to be Delivered

147

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace How We Got to Be So Hated

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