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Title	:	The Public Burning
Author	:	Robert Coover
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 544 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 1998 by Grove Press (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

The Public Burning

Robert Coover

Paperback | Pages: 544 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 1150 Users | 109 Reviews

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A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 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. And not a person present escapes implication in Cold War America's ruthless "public burning."

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Original Title:	The Public Burning
ISBN:	0802135277 (ISBN13: 9780802135278)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard M. Nixon
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1978)

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A full-toothed pell-mell assault on the American political class rendered in scimitar-sharp prose, rammed into the intestines of the Establishment with merciless force. Split between a rumbustious third-person satirical voice, making full use of Coovers insane linguistic skill in the phonetic bile of Uncle Sama monstrous American Devil pulling the puppet stringsand a section narrated by Dick Nixon (who has his intestines removed and served up on a plate of steaming poop four times per para), The

This Is a Job for Uncle Sam!A very exciting way to write history, at least political history, which is simultaneously personal and public, psychological and strategic, irrationally rational and therefore so dense with meaning it defies conventional narrative. As Richard Nixon says in The Public Burning, ... just as a nation has neither friends nor enemies, only interests, so there are no enduring loyalties in politics except where they are tied up in personal interests. And personal interests

His clumsiness, I thought, is part of his disguise, part of his armor, a kind of self-defense mechanismhe seems most sincere just when he makes the least sense.Thats Ike Eisenhower.Let the best man win so long as its me I wanted it to be played with rhetoric and industry, yet down deep I knew that even at its most trivial, politics flirted with murder and mayhem, theft and cannibalism.Thats Dick Nixon.He parades through like a peacock, sporting all his medals, and jabbing his stubby fingers in

This Review is on strike.Something someday will be added to this Review Box. Meanwhile it is observing my peculiar tradition of not successfully reviewing my Bestest Books.....

I read this as part of a Thomas Pynchon group on yahoo in the late 90s. Apparently I was the only one in the group who braved this wicked ride. I recall calling my grandmother and verifying historical details, particularly about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg . This was such a wild endeavor, one devoured at a very open point in my life. I am far from certain how I would receive this now, some twenty years later.

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Bizarre, strange and bordering on satire, The Public Burning looks at politics in America through a hilarious, surprising and sometimes very deep lens.