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On August 1, Bardi headlined "Goodbye, Mr. Honorary President," saying:
"It's too hard to list all the appropriate adjectives and accolades that could proceed Gore Vidal's name. Gore Vidal died tonight and the enlightened world mourns. But what a life he lived!"
He spent decades criticizing the religious right, US imperialism, perpetual wars, political extremism in the name of national security, America's military/industrial complex, and other political, social and economic injustices.
He succeeded Kurt Vonnegut as honorary AHA president. He accepted at the time, saying he would be "most honored to succeed my old friend as honorary president of the Association.""Although he himself is hardly easy to replace, I will do my best to fill the great gap."
His official web site listed his accomplishments. They include 24 novels, five plays, many screenplays, over 200 essays, his memoir Palimpsest, his National Book Award winning "United States (Essays 1952 - 92)," and numerous other political books. They include:
- "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated"
- "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta"
- "Imperial America"
- "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire"
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