# The Last Empire

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- Book: [The Last Empire](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-last-empire) ([The Last Empire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-last-empire.md))
- Authors: [Gore Vidal](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-528-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.