Los Angeles: Nash Publishing Co., (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - This is an overview of the topic of economic change, with a focus on policies during President Nixon's term. The dust jacket comments that this comes at an appropriate time "when the consumer is plagued by inflation" - almost as true now as it was 50 years ago. Includes several appendices, notes, author and subject indexes. Compliments of the Institute for Humane Studies slip laid in. xxvii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-840213379.

New York: The New Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - An always incisive and sometimes humorous collection of essays covering everything from " America's fear and loathing of the sixties to Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis; from the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to the Gulf War "turkey shoot"; from riots in Los Angeles to "ethnic cleansing" at the 1992 Republican Convention, from censorship and homelessness" to writing about authors on the home front and in 'other worlds' - Toni Morrison, Hemingway, Normam Mailer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Garcia Marquez and others. 297 pp. ISBN: 1-565840720.

New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of topical and often provocative essays by an American master - on Nixon, Reagan and other political matters, on writers ranging from Anthony Burgess to Italo Calvino, Henry James and Dawn Powell (Vidal is almost singlehandly responsible for the resurgence of interest in the writings of Powell.) 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570200.