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E Pluribus Bang!
Book by Lippincott, David
212 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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November 7, 2022
David Lippincott (1924-1984) was a composer and novelist known (according to Wiki) for the holy grail of collector’s items, the 1954 album musical The Body in the Seine, and a handful of forgotten novels, listed on that same poor Wiki page that needs immediate elaboration by someone other than me. In E Pluribus Bang!, Lippincott’s first novel, a president catches his oversexed missus in bed with one of the security detail and shoots him dead. There follows a complex web of cover-up as everyone involved in the cover-up finds themselves part of a cover-up of the previous cover-up, until the body count increases and the president himself must fake his own death. A mild-mannered, softly savage satire on the pomp of power and the ludicrous mistakes the powerful make to maintain secrecy, this novel evokes the similar political romps of Gore Vidal, if less witty and stylish.
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