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THE LAST EMPIRE
Fifty years ago, the American Republic set forth to become the American Empire. In the name of saving the world from Communism, GORE VIDAL explains, its leaders created a National Security State, engaged in perhaps a hundred covert and overt wars, and ran up $5 trillion in debt. The winners were the arms merchants; the losers, the hoodwinked citizens of the United States. Without its Soviet enemy, the author asks, can the empire survive?
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THE LAST EMPIRE
Fifty years ago, the American Republic set forth to become the American Empire. In the name of saving the world from Communism, GORE VIDAL explains, its leaders created a National Security State, engaged in perhaps a hundred covert and overt wars, and ran up $5 trillion in debt. The winners were the arms merchants; the losers, the hoodwinked citizens of the United States. Without its Soviet enemy, the author asks, can the empire survive?
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