["The Remarkable Andrew"] includes two remarkable Andrews—one, young Andrew Long of Shale City, Col., and the other General Andrew Jackson. The tale combines stiff doses of the literal and the fantastical which effervesce into a high-powered satirical cocktail. As a means for Mr. Trumbo to blow off steam about the present bewildering condition of local and world affairs, young Andrew is put through a very curious experience.
An honest, hardworking, sane young clerk in the offices of the city treasury, he one day finds that his books won't balance…. It takes a consultation by a half-dozen historical characters to get him out of this horrid mess. In the process the author indulges in blood satire on United States foreign policy and on municipal corruption in Shale City. The subjects seem oddly assorted, but each in turn comes in for its share of an ironical going-over.
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