By Gore Vidal, Jon Wiener
Gore Vidal, who died on the finish of July 2012, is largely stated as considered one of America's prime novelists, essayists and screenwriters. yet Vidal was once additionally an excellent conversationalist; certainly Dick Cavett as soon as defined him as "the top talker because Oscar Wilde." Vidal was once by no means extra eloquent, or caustic, than while let out on his favourite subject: the historical past and politics of the United States.
This publication is made up from 4 interviews performed along with his long-time interlocutor, the author and radio host Jon Wiener, during which Vidal grapples with concerns obviously just about his center: the heritage of the yank Empire, the increase of the nationwide safety country, and his personal existence in politics, either as a commentator and candidate.
The interviews conceal a twenty-year span, from 1988 to 2008, while Vidal was once on the top of his powers. His remarkable facility for constructing an issue, tracing connections among previous and current, and drawing on an encyclopedic wisdom of America's position on the earth, are all on complete reveal. And, in fact, it being Gore Vidal, an abundant sprinkling of gloriously acerbic one-liners is additionally supplied.
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Et tenta de bloquer quelques initiatives très privées de M. Jevakhoff, trop proche à son goût du petit monde des expatriés russes. Il y a donc cet homme, au profil controversé, mais aussi une jeune femme, Ludivine Olive, nièce de Michèle Alliot-Marie. Elle a rang de chef de cabinet, et sa mission est d’organiser l’agenda de la ministre. En réalité, elle est avant tout là pour protéger sa tante. Cette dernière, d’une prudence proverbiale, s’est fixé pour règle de ne jamais intervenir dans quelque dossier que ce soit.
Té placés en quarantaine. « Blacklistés ». Dans un système dont on peut mesurer chaque jour un peu plus le dévoiement présidentialiste, voire monarchique, déplaire au souverain, c’est s’exposer à des mesures de rétorsion d’autant plus redoutables que ces représailles émanent de l’appareil d’État tout entier. Inlassable contempteur de la présidence Chirac, dont il n’a eu de cesse de stigmatiser la supposée faiblesse, Nicolas Sarkozy n’a, en effet, jamais fait mystère de sa volonté de réaffirmer l’autorité de l’exécutif – en l’espèce celle du président de la République, le Premier ministre ayant été publiquement ravalé par lui au rang de simple « collaborateur ».
Ils dirigent la police, la justice, les services secrets, des médias, des officines… Du coup, jamais sans doute un président de la République n’a disposé d’autant d’informations croustillantes. Les procès-verbaux les plus intéressants remontent directement vers les plus proches collaborateurs du chef de l’État, lequel sait tout des petits et grands secrets de ses amis comme de ses rivaux, ainsi qu’en témoigne la mésaventure survenue à la députée socialiste Aurélie Filippetti, narrée dans ce livre.