Sharp commentary with which I disagree on many points but yes - a enduringly fascinating figure, full of contradictions. (Happy to get down to details if you care to.) I may be biased: a mere babe in swaddling clothes, I was kissed by Nixon on the campaign trail. They'll be sure to put that in my biography!
Robert Coover published A Public Burning in 1977 about Nixon and the execution of the Rosenbergs, and while it's def a product of its time (the wacky, Barth-esque, Pynchon-esque satires of America) I was surprised that a novel with Nixon as its protagonist portrayed him so sympathetically. The style can be cloying (because it's been done a million times since) but it was worth reading, just out of morbid curiosity
Sharp commentary with which I disagree on many points but yes - a enduringly fascinating figure, full of contradictions. (Happy to get down to details if you care to.) I may be biased: a mere babe in swaddling clothes, I was kissed by Nixon on the campaign trail. They'll be sure to put that in my biography!
I loved this!
Thank you Tina! Of course I cannot get enough of that era.
Robert Coover published A Public Burning in 1977 about Nixon and the execution of the Rosenbergs, and while it's def a product of its time (the wacky, Barth-esque, Pynchon-esque satires of America) I was surprised that a novel with Nixon as its protagonist portrayed him so sympathetically. The style can be cloying (because it's been done a million times since) but it was worth reading, just out of morbid curiosity
I’ll have to give it try. I’m partial to that wacky sensibility when I’m in the right mood.