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The Public Burning

Robert Coover

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Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the Rosenbergs are put to death.

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Publisher
Grove Press
Year
1997
ISBN-13
9780802135278
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Cold War politics and paranoiaSatire of American mythology and mediaThe Rosenberg executions

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