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Echoes of . . . Shh . . . (Spiro)

by Victor Gold

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They’ll never admit it, but what do we have seven years after That Des Moines Speech? Why, more responsible media, that’s what: and all thanks to the former Veep

The reviews are coming in on Spiro Agnew’s novel and, what do you know, most of the important critics don’t much care for his style. To be sure, as of this writing we have yet to hear from the Saint-Just of the upper Chesapeake, but sufficient unto the hour is the literary tumbreling thereof. Garry Wills can take his time. We already have the verdict of the weekly news magazine that Separates Fact from Opinion, whose critic allows that The Canfield Decision is overwritten, forced, and voyeuristic. Besides, it was written for money.

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