The Public Burning
Download or Read eBook The Public Burning PDF written by Robert Coover and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Robert Coover |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0802135277 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780802135278 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Public Burning by : Robert Coover
Book excerpt: 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.
