Nixonland

[Dave Monroe]

>From Rick Pearlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the
Fracturing of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), Ch.4,
"Ronald Reagan," pp. 70-95 ...

   "The hottest novel: The Crying of Lot 49, a dystopic vision of the
world in which surveillance and conspiracy lurked beneath every
surface...." (p. 82)

http://books.google.com/books?id=dM_enWzoghoC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82

http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?isbn=9780743243025

Cf. "Sick Dick and the Volkswagens" (Lot 49, Ch. 2, p. 23)

http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2