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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)

The Public Burning Paperback | Pages: 544 pages

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

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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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For those with an interest in the Rosenberg trials, Richard Nixon, McCarthyism, and the entire 1953 milieu, The Public Burning provides a wild and entertaining view of what might otherwise be a dry subject. Coovers fictional Nixon is fascinating with Nixons reflections on himself as the pragmatic political workman misunderstood by an aloof Eisenhower who both uses and looks askance at him. Some knowledge of this period is required to get the most from the book. Every celebrity and well-known

Furious, scatological, enflamed, visionary, razor sharp, scabrous, detailed, lengthy, outraged, overindulgent, pioneering, vicious, vivacious, cynical, black humored, radical, cartoonish, incandescent, hauntingI can see why this book was banned but that's only for the reasons that testify to its power and vision. This is a cultural link to South Park, The Simpsons, etc. Over the top satire that is just too dead-on to be neglected. The problem is, its tragicomic vision of a charismatically

It is with some consternatin that I do believe the Holy Ghost Himself, one Mr. Sam Slick, Uncle Sammy, plug-hatted prometheus is the butt-kickin, freedom taring ethos of these here YOU-nited States, a tulpa of our ancestors devisin that we keep churrnin up with our idealisms and religionisms and tribality, and that in so en-body-ing that old SPIRIT of America as a homunculus, Mr. Coover here, the confabulator-in-chief of this so-called The Pubic Burningerm, pubLIC!has recast the electric glow of

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.

Robert Coover recently published The Brunist Day of Wrath, revisiting earlier territory in a highly anticipated (by hundreds at least) mammoth new novel.  One of the thoughts I had reading The Public Burning was that Coover could have easily returned to The Public Burning by looking at a recent era in American history.  Imagine a novel where a Vice President named Dick, a cynical operator and foil to a relative political amateur from Texas, is seduced by the idea of becoming the living

Madcap, or else simply mad political picaresque reimagines the deaths of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as a public execution, attended by a mob of frenzied onlookers, angered protesters, entertainers, politicians, religious leaders and an anthropomorphized Uncle Sam, presided over by Vice President Richard Nixon. Originally published in 1977, Coover's book was rejected by one publisher, suppressed by another, then pulled from the shelves after becoming a best-seller for fear of triggering lawsuits

A sizzling indictment of whatever hysteric sinister swirling form America chose to take that could put to death Julius and Ethel Rosenberg with little to no evidence and an abundance of doubt as to their guilt. This is the first novel of Coover I've read and it's a doozy. Not a difficult read, but the satire is lapped on and layered over like a dog aggressively licking your sleeping face. This is similar to what Hess says in the introduction, but I think its apt, that although the novel is a