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Title: A last hurrah for the old century and a forcast for the new.
Review: Vidal still skewers sacred cows with a relish wherever he finds them, on the politically correct left or the fundamentalist right. When he takes on the American Empire he is like a reincarnation of Mark Twain. But for me, the three most important chapters were serious reflections on the current state of the Union and its future. The titles speak for themselves, Chaos, Shredding The Bill of Rights, and The New Theocrats. The decline and fall of the American empire may occur more quickly than that Rome. We need Adams, Jefferson and Madison, but all we seem to find are political hacks like Slick Willie, Little Al Junoir and The Chappaquidic Kid.
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