New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.). First edition - A Political Journey. In 1988, Erickson follows the presidential campaign across the country by train and car in 1988, a trip in which he is joined by "a deathless wanderer named Sally Hemings, who at the age of fifteen in Paris in 1789 chose to remain the slave of Thomas Jefferson, and thus changed the meaning and consequence of America forever." 192 pp.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Political Journey. In 1988, Erickson follows the presidential campaign across the country by train and car in 1988, a trip in which he is joined by "a deathless wanderer named Sally Hemings, who at the age of fifteen in Paris in 1789 chose to remain the slave of Thomas Jefferson, and thus changed the meaning and consequence of America forever." SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-671-671340.

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.