Sex & the Swastika

[Spencer Thiel]

At 9:40 AM -0600 1/12/00, RR wrote:


>>
>>Hard to conceive of any American writer having legal problems over
>>anything he might say about a President. .... Presidential candidates say
>>worse
>>things about each other than P says about Nixon.
>>
>>			P.
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>Well, Robert Coover sure has with trying to get The Public Burning
>published, and not only naming names, but boy some of the things that Nixon
>does.  Many publishers rejected TPB, finally it was published in 1977.  As
>far as I know, there hasn't been any legal repercussions for Coover or for
>his publisher.

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If there is any author who would have been pursued, sued, or killed by the
Nixon's it's surely Phillip Roth for his _Our Gang_.  There is absolutely
no hiding the identity of any of the political characters, besides changing
their names.
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