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Gore Vidal

Synopsis:

'Welcome to the United States of Amnesia'. Gore Vidal tells Mary Wakefield that America has forgotten its constitutional roots, and explains why Bobby Kennedy was ‘the biggest son of a bitch in politics’.

Publish date:
21 May 2008
Author:
Mary Wakefield
Source:
The Spectator
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