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Title page; Contents; Introduction; I. ALL AMERICAN; Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment; The Private Jefferson; Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates; Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy; John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery; Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child; Mark Twain: American Rad...

Old Enough to DieIn Defense of Foxhole Atheists; In Search of the Washington Novel; II. ECLECTIC AFFINITIES; Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity; The Men Who Made England: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall; Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet; Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries; Gustav Flaubert: I'm with Stup...

P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable SchoolboyAnthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity; John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father; Graham Greene: I'll Be Damned; Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene's Bottled Ontology; Loving Philip Larkin; Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool; Edward Upward: The Captive Mind; C....

Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played with FireAs American as Apple Pie; So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time; The New Commandments; In Your Face; Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite; Charles, Prince of Piffle; IV. OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS; Afghanistan's Dangerous Bet; First, Silence the Whistle-Blower; Believ...

Holiday in IraqTunisia: At the Desert's Edge; What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?; Childhood's End: An African Nightmare; The Vietnam Syndrome; Once Upon a Time in Germany; Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four; North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves; The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro...

Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight.