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I Liked It: Crooked, by Austin Grossman — 3 Comments

  1. “he family opted for cremation until they were advised of the potentially onerous implications of a strictly private, unwitnessed burning of the body of the man who was, after all, the President of the United States. Awkward questions might be raised, dark allusions to Hitler and Rasputin. People would be filing lawsuits to get their hands on the dental charts. Long court battles would be inevitable — some with liberal cranks bitching about corpus delicti and habeas corpus and others with giant insurance companies trying not to pay off on his death benefits. Either way, an orgy of greed and duplicity was sure to follow any public hint that Nixon might have somehow faked his own death or been cryogenically transferred to fascist Chinese interests on the Central Asian Mainland.”

    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

  2. I finally got around to reading Crooked and really enjoyed it. I found myself prepared to read stories of Dick Nixon, unrepentant bastard and sorcerer-president, for as long as Grossman would tell them. When he was finished I felt a little disappointed that he didn’t have more to tell. Thanks for the recommendation.

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