num_pages: 336
description: Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
language: English
title: The Last Empire
titlecomplete: The Last Empire
characters: Gore Vidal
genres: Classics, Historical, History, Criticism, 21st Century, American History, Literature, Essays, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1799
publisher: Abacus/Hachette