The last empire: essays 1992-2000

Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man

Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age

Lost New York

The romance of Sinclair Lewis

Twain on the grand tour

Reply to a critic

Twain's letters

Rabbit's own burrow

A note on The city and the pillar and Thomas Mann

Anthony Burgess

Pride

Lindbergh : the eagle is grounded

Sinatra

C.P. Cavafy

George

Amistad

FDR : love on the Hudson

Wiretapping the oval office

Clare Boothe Luce

Truman

Hersh's JFK

Nixon R.I.P.

Clinton-Gore I

Bedfellows make strange politics

Clinton-Gore II

Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior

Kopkind

Bad history

Blair

How we missed the Saturday dance

The last empire

In the lair of the octopus

With extreme prejudice

Time for a people's convention

The union of the state

Mickey Mouse, historian

U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S.

Race against time

Chaos

Shredding the Bill of Rights

The new theocrats

Coup de Starr

Starr conspiracy

Birds and bees and Clinton

A letter to be delivered

Democratic vistas

Three lies to rule by

Japanese intentions in the second World War.