A searing portrayal of modern warfare recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. Reprint.
A new paperback edition of the National Book Award-winning collection includes Gore Vidal's most noted essays on post-war America and its intellectual and political life during a time of upheaval, and provides insight into his humorous and uncompromising beliefs.