The Return of Richard Nixon and Other Essays - Softcover
1990 Harbinger House trade paperback, Gregory McNamee (Gila: The Life and Death of an American River). Richard Nixon functions in McNamee's vision of America as a central icon of absurdity, proof positive that anything is possible when the world makes no sense. He begins his collection with a list of horrors that seem commonplace: In Hiroshima, for example, "a MacDonald's hamburger restaurant has newly opened where a hundred and thirty thousand skeletons once burned." The culmination of the list: "And Richard Nixon has emerged again to roam freely across the fin-de-siecle landscape, proclaiming himself our senior statesman, evidence enough that vampires do indeed exist." Most of McNamee's essays concern symbols and icons of our time, and it is their hold over the imagination that preoccupies him. One essay discusses the uncanny hidden political power of Howard Hughes (who called Nixon "our boy in the White House"). Other subjects include Orwell, Hemingway, Reagan ("Ronnie Dearest") and the youngest bank robber in American history. - Los Angeles Times
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- PublisherHarbinger House
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0943173612
- ISBN 13 9780943173610
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages249
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