SOURCE: Frick, Daniel E. “Coover's Secret Sharer? Richard Nixon in The Public Burning.” Critique 37, no. 2 (winter 1996): 82–91.
In the following essay, Frick explores Coover's preoccupation with Richard Nixon, as evidenced in The Public Burning. Frick contends that Nixon represents an authorial alter-ego through whom Coover examines his own artistic self-doubt and depravity and the perils of attempting to debunk a tyrannical national mythology through the force of one's literary imagination.
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