The Last Patriots

Are Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal finally bidding adieu?
By Don Gillmor
· illustration by Amedeo De Palma
Books · From the September 2007 magazine
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books discussed in this essay:

The Castle in the Forest
by Norman Mailer
Random House (2007), 496 pp.

Why Are We At War?
by Norman Mailer
Random House (2003), 128 pp.

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir,
1964 to 2006
by Gore Vidal
Doubleday (2006), 288 pp.

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How
We Got To Be So Hated
by Gore Vidal
Nation Books (2002), 160 pp.

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