Golden Fang

[Joseph Tracy]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

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> On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>> What is really at stake here, we discover, is the suppression of a
>> secret that could have destroyed the political career of the  
>> ambitious
>> Governor of the State of California. For now, finally, we see the
>> Golden Fang for what it really is: the toothy smile of Governor  
>> Ronald
>> Reagan, about to drop a steel chain around America and drag it back
>> into the dungeon. Sportello realises that the good times are  
>> coming to
>> an end, but there is nothing he can do - the battle is lost, the
>> conservatives have won....  the great communal togetherness of the
>> 1960s is almost gone, to be replaced by materialism and solipsism.  
>> God
>> save us, for the 1980s are at hand.
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>> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/ 
>> books/fiction/article6724624.ece
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>  I like this comment a lot. the book is set in the year of RRs  
> reelection for governor of California and the beginning of the  
> Nixon Years. Part of the political understanding that emerges is  
> that  these guys are part of a widespread criminal cartel  and the  
> resurrection of fascism in America. The sometimes anachronistic  
> references point to various aspects of this criminality. Spoofy and  
> goofy but as pointed as the Golden Fang, and real as the dead  
> bodies that tell the true story.
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