Inventing a Nation

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Gore Vidal: Inventing a Nation (2008, Yale University Press)

205 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2008 by Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-1-283-95022-0
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Fast, entertaining, and thought provoking.

If you read this as a history you will be disappointed. It covers some historical events, yes, but I believe this is better read as a commentary or reflection. Gore Vidal paints a very humanizing picture of the founding fathers of the US and highlights some parallels to a modern political (and judicial) reality.