Orginally published in 1984, Vidal's novel of Lincoln's presidency allows the man to breathe again. As the Civil War ravages his nation, President Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections.-- from publisher's description.

Vidal's essay is an Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the "war on dandruff", where America is an "Enron-Pentagon prison", a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and of course the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department.

By 1900 America, now reaching out for empire, is racked by titanic struggles over its own destiny. The novel re-creates a time that woud be remembered as America's Gilded Age: where political bosses rule, where robber barons fight to consolidate their wealth, and where a yellow headline can lead the country to war.

Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, brings the reader face to face with some of the greatest men who ever lived, in vivid and unforgettable detail. It makes alive the ancient world in which so many of our modern world's ideas-spiritual, philosophical, political and scientific-were conceived.

"The Last Empire is Gore Vidal's ninth collection of essays. As in the previous volumes, Vidal displays unparalleled range and inimitable style as he deals with matters literary, historical, personal, and political."--BOOK JACKET.

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception,...

The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that [Tarzan of...