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.