IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

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rich is right. It is wonderful, so put it on your list. Coover is one of the 
best lesser- known great American authors.

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From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons


> there's robert coover loose trilogy about Nixon--The Public Burning,
> Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears (Nixon as a
> fighter for union labor and a horndog) and the wonderfully deranged A
> Political Fable written in 68 yr of Nixon's election-aka The Cat in
> the Hat for President.
>
> Coover's Journal during the writing of the Public Burning is very
> interesting reading partly due to the sheer effort that Coover made to
> keep up with all the new information emerging from watergate and the
> research where he had to write all his notes in long hand at places
> like the British Library
> Beyond that, tho Coover skewers Nixon (like Uncle Sam's sodomizing of
> same at the end of the book, or Nixon's liaison at Sing Sing with
> Ethel Rosenberg or Hoover in drag, or the apocalyptic party at Times
> Square where the Rosenbergs are pubicly eltrocuted-- its very funny),
> Nixon comes across as oddly sympathetic thruout the book as an
> outsized outsider within Eisenhower's administration
> I wish more folks would read it.  its wonderful
>
> rich
>
> rich
>
> On 9/30/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dave Monroe
>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "the two Nixons"
>>
>> Bilocation?
>>
>


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