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The Gay Place: Being Three Related Novels

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Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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" (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.

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"There are two classic American political novels. One is All the King's Men....the other is The Gay Place, a stunning , original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson....It will be read a hundred years from now." David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review

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"The best novel about American politics in our time." Willie Morris

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"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." Gore Vidal

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Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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" (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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" (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.

Synopsis:

Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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The best novel about American politics in our time. — Willie Morris There are two classic American political novels. One is All the King's Men. . . . the other is The Gay Place, a stunning, original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson. . . . It will be read a hundred years from now. — David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review 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. — Gore Vidal

Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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 (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.

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The Gay Place is a winner in so many ways: an absorbing, deep novel, a historical novel about a key time in our history, an accurate an perceptive regional novel (about my home town, Austin!) and, the best novel on American, or maybe any, politics ever written. Billy Lee Brammer was a speech writer for Lyndon Johnson who was fascinated by the world where a sentence could start with high minded political goals and end in crude bullying. A world where bribery, humiliation and blackmail were tools of the trade, often for worthy purposes. A must-read American classic that grows in reputation as time passes.
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Product details 560 pages University of Texas Press - English 9780292708310 Reviews:
"Review" by , "There are two classic American political novels. One is All the King's Men....the other is The Gay Place, a stunning , original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson....It will be read a hundred years from now."
"Review" by , "The best novel about American politics in our time."
"Review" by , "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."
"Synopsis" by , Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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" (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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" (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.

"Synopsis" by , Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.
"Synopsis" by , The best novel about American politics in our time. — Willie Morris There are two classic American political novels. One is All the King's Men. . . . the other is The Gay Place, a stunning, original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson. . . . It will be read a hundred years from now. — David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review 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. — Gore Vidal

Set in Texas, The Gay Place 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.

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 (Saturday Review).

Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.
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