The Public Burning

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Introduction -- Prologue: Groun'-Hog Hunt -- Part One: Wednesday-Thursday -- 1. President Eisenhower's News Conference -- 2. A Rash of Evil Doings -- 3. Idle Banter: The Fighting Quaker Among Saints and Sinners -- 4. Uncle Sam Strikes Back -- 5. With Uncle Sam at Burning Tree -- 6. The Phantom's Hour -- 7. A Little Morality Play for Our Generation -- Intermezzo: The War Between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness: The Vision of Dwight David Eisenhower -- Part Two: Friday Morning -- 8. What a Glorious Morning for America! -- 9. The Vice President's Beard -- 10. Pilgrimmage to the New York Times -- 11. How to Handle a Bloodthirsty Mob -- 12. A Roman Scandal of Roaring Spectacle -- 13. The Cabinet Meeting -- 14. High Noon -- Intermezzo: The Clemency Appeals: A Dramatic Dialogue by Ethel Rosenberg and Dwight Eisenhower -- Part Three: Friday Afternoon -- 15. Iron Butt Gets Smeared Again -- 16. Third Dementia -- 17. The Eye in the Sky -- 18. The National Poet Laureate Mediates on the Art of Revelation -- 19. All Aboard the Look Ahead, Neighbor Special -- 20. Yippee, the Divine Concursus -- 21. Something Truly Dangerous -- Intermezzo: Human Dignity Is Not for Sale: A Last-Act Sing Sing Opera by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Part Four: Friday Night -- 22. Singalong with the Pentagon Patriots -- 23. The Warden's Guided Tour -- 24. Introducing: The Sam Slick Show! -- 25. A Taste of the City -- 26. Spreading the Table of Glory -- 27. Letting Out the Dark: The Prodigal Son Returns -- 28. Freedom's Holy Light: The Burning of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Epilogue: Beauty and the Beast.
"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.""--Jacket.

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