Introduction xv
All American
Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment
3(5)
The Private Jefferson
8(4)
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
12(9)
Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy
21(7)
John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery
28(6)
Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child
34(6)
Mark Twain: American Radical
40(7)
Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer
47(7)
JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth
54(8)
Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator
62(8)
Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita
70(8)
John Updike, Part One: No Way
78(7)
John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality
85(4)
Vidal Loco
89(5)
America the Banana Republic
94(425)
Holiday in Iraq
519(7)
Tunisia: At the Desert's Edge
526(6)
What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?
532(3)
Childhood's End: An African Nightmare
535(6)
The Vietnam Syndrome
541(7)
Once Upon a Time in Germany
548(5)
Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four
553(3)
North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves
556(3)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty
559(4)
Hugo Boss
563(3)
Is the Euro Doomed?
566(3)
Overstating Jewish Power
569(4)
The Case for Humanitarian Intervention
573(12)
Legacies of Totalitarianism
Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition
585(10)
Andre Malraux: One Man's Fate
595(7)
Arthur Koestler: The Zealot
602(5)
Isabel Allende: Chile Redux
607(10)
The Persian Version
617(8)
Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight
625(15)
Imagining Hitler
640(12)
Victor Klemperer: Survivor
652(9)
A War Worth Fighting
661(8)
Just Give Peace a Chance?
669(4)
W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany
673(14)
Words' Worth
When the King Saved God
687(10)
Let Them Eat Pork Rinds
697(7)
Stand Up for Denmark!
704(5)
Eschew the Taboo
709(3)
She's No Fundamentalist
712(4)
Burned Out
716(3)
Easter Charade
719(3)
Don't Mince Words
722(4)
History and Mystery
726(4)
Words Matter
730(3)
This Was Not Looting
733(3)
The Other L-Word
736(3)
The You Decade
739(3)
Suck It Up
742(3)
A Very, Very Dirty Word
745(3)
Prisoner of Shelves
748(3)
Acknowledgments 751(2)
Index 753