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Friday, October 10, 2008
Civic Virtues: Gore Vidal's Selected Essays - Nation
That Constitution has become the American Scripture, our political Holy Writ and a chronic obstacle to popular initiative. Dissolving the mystique of the Constitution and those who framed it, as well as that of the revered Federalist Papers--whose "general tone," Vidal accurately observes, "is that of a meeting of the trust department of Sullivan and Cromwell"--is essential to our civic health. These two essays, along with Vidal's historical fiction, are powerful dissolving agents.
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