IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

[malignd at aol.com]

Agree.  The Public Burning is wonderful. If I remember correctly, ever 
other chapter written by Uncle Sam, every other by Nixon.  The Nixon 
chapters I remember as sublime.




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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> 

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Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:53 PM 

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> 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 an
d 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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