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02845aam a2200433Ia 4500 001 F2BAF446033911E8972C924897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180127021036 008 051222t20052005nyu 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781560257448 020 $a 156025744X 035 $a (OCoLC)62732597 040 $a TBL $b eng $c TBL $d BAKER $d DGU $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d TXJ $d BDX $d OCLCA $d DAC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d IaU-L $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 14 $a E839.5 $b .V54 2005 082 04 $a 973.931 $b Vid 100 1 $a Vidal, Gore, $d 1925-2012. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040150 245 10 $a Imperial America : $b reflections on the United States of amnesia / $c Gore Vidal. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Nation Books : $c [2005] 300 $a x, 181 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a State of the union, 2004 -- The privatizing of the American election -- The day the American empire ran out of gas -- A cheerful response -- Armageddon? -- Notes on our patriarchal state -- The national security state -- The state of the union, 1980 -- The second American revolution -- We are the patriots -- Interim report : election 2004. 520 $a In this conclusion to his trilogy begun with "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" and continued by his "Dreaming War," Gore Vidal offers a devastating exploration of contemporary America. He argues that we have ceased to be a nation under law, but an "Enron-Pentagon prison" with a "withered Bill of Rights", where homegrown imperialists have privatized and stolen American democracy from its people and there are ballooning budget deficits and tax cuts for the privileged. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1989- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2001-2009. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $x Election $y 2004. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108985 650 0 $a National security $z United States. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140387 600 10 $a Vidal, Gore, $d 1925-2012 $x Political and social views. 600 17 $a Vidal, Gore, $d 1925-2012. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01800233 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a National security. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033711 650 7 $a Political and social views. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Presidents $x Election. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075747 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a Since 1989 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180127034624.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2BAF446033911E8972C924897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search