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Robert Coover’s ’70s Novel ‘The Public Burning’ Eerily Anticipates Trump

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A vicious, albeit artful satire about the execution of the Rosenbergs, Robert Coover’s searing novel predicts our ugly mash-up of politics and entertainment.

Tom LeClair
Tom LeClair
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