CRITICAL MASS: the blog of the national book critics circle board of directors asks the question,“Which work of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry best captures the realities of American political culture??
Huey Long [fact and fiction] wins, followed by Mayor Daley, Lyndon B.Johnson, Barack Obama…and at the very end of dozens of fellows we get Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Emily Dickinson and Grace Paley.
Women are falling off the planet.
My choice:
Living History, by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
