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<blockquote> <p class="quote"> "The best novel about American politics in our time."</p> <p class="source"> —Willie Morris </p> <p class="quote"> "There are two classic American political novels. One is <cite>All the King's Men</cite>. . . . the other is <cite>The Gay Place,</cite> a stunning , original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson. . . . It will be read a hundred years from now."</p> <p class="source"> —David Halberstam, <cite>New York Times Book Review</cite> </p> <p class="quote"> "An American classic in which a Johnsonian figure named Arthur 'Goddam' Fenstemaker strides through the pages, large, earthy, intelligent, threatening, working it seemed more often on the side of the angels than against them."</p> <p class="source"> —Gore Vidal </p> </blockquote> <p> Set in Texas, <cite>The Gay Place</cite> consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist—a member of the state legislature, the state's junior senator, and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, remains the dominant figure throughout. </p> <p> Billy Lee Brammer—who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff—gives us here "the excitement of a political carnival: the sideshows, the freaks, and the ghoulish comedy atmosphere" <cite>(Saturday Review).</cite> </p> <p> Originally published in 1961, <cite>The Gay Place</cite> is at once a cult classic and a major American novel. </p>
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Immediately reminded me of Ruskin's "The Nature of Gothic" in Stones of Venice:
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