The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982

These nineteen essays richly confirm Gore Vidal's reputation as "America's finest essayist" ( The New Statesman ), and are further evidence of the breadth and depth of his intelligence and wit. Included here are his highly praised essays on Theodore Roosevelt ("An American Sissy"), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson ("This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes"), the need for a new constitutional convention—as well as his controversial study of relations between the homosexual and Jewish communiti