num_pages: 1295
description: From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal’s United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post—World War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.
language: English
title: United States: Essays 1952-1992
titlecomplete: United States: Essays 1952-1992
genres: Essays, American, Politics, Literature, Criticism, American History, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, Journalism
ratings_count: 900
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Broadway Books