Ep 489 - The Public Burning, by Robert Coover

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Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham, Arts, Podcasts, Comedy

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This book is a work of "faction" (that's "fact" plus "fiction") about Richard Nixon's interactions with the physical manifestation(s) of Uncle Sam in the run-up to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. So, uh, a weird one.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:41.9	Well everybody welcome to over to its podcast about the books you've been meaning to
0:45.2	read my name is Craig my name is Andrew and I'm burning up to tell you about a book
0:52.6	this week that I didn't even read before we get into that which because I read the
0:59.9	book The Public Burning by Robert Cooper.
1:02.5	Oh boy did I read it?
1:04.5	Yeah, this is our book.
1:05.9	I read this book where one of us reads a book that we haven't read before.
1:09.3	It's usually on some somebody somewhere's list of books that you should have at least heard of by now.
1:15.8	Is this a Patreon one?
1:17.0	It was.
1:17.7	It was a pinote for this one.
1:19.2	I would love to know what this person said about this before I,
1:22.3	and then I have a question.
1:23.5	I need to put you on trial for a second.
1:25.6	Oh, I know what you're going to tell me about.
1:27.2	Patreon.com slash over to pod.
1:29.5	Daniel recommended this book.
1:30.9	Thank you, Daniel.
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