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Title: When intellectuals beef...
Review: The idea that Vidal could title this book the U.S. of Amnesia without referencing Foucault's would have been disturbing had I not already been acclimatized to noted scholars' tendency to omit references to other noted scholars with the same idea. If I may be allowed to be as lax with this criticism as Vidal seemed with his references, I'd like to suggest that Foucault has before described the Western, specifically, the U.S.'s relation to history as an amnesiac historicism. Must be nice to write a book and not worry about the dreaded P-word. I take this as another example of making an idea suitable for mass consumption by tailoring it to the audience. Afterall, how many would accept such a statement from a Frenchman.
