IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

[rich]

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?
>