Johnson's Senate staff. His publishers awarded him the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship; respectful reviewers proclaimed him the heir to F. Scott Fitzgerald; all the prospects were bright.
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Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. 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.
The Gay Place is a series of three novellas, with interlocking plots and characters, by American author Billy Lee Brammer. Set in an unnamed state identical to Texas, each novella has a different protagonist: Roy Sherwood, a member of the state legislature; Neil Christiansen, the state's junior senator; and Jay McGown, the governor's speechwriter. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician said to have been based on Brammer's mentor Lyndon Johnson [1] serves as the dominant figure throughout.
Thank you! A political and pop-cultural view of midcentury America in relation to the enigmatic life of a Texas-bred political journalist and novelist. Outside of Texas and certain literary circles, Billy Lee Brammer may not evoke the cult recognition shared by his contemporaries, such as Ken Kesey or Tom Wolfe.
There are two classic American political novels. This book is comprised of three inter-connected novellas, each with its own central character — Texas State Sen. The title comes from an F.
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.
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.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the greatest American political novel ever written, The Gay Placeby William Brammer. They tell the story of Democratic politics in Texas in the s, circling around the majestic figure of Governor Arthur Fenstemaker, based on Lyndon Johnson, for whom Brammer known as "Billie Lee" wrote speeches, before founding the liberal paper the Texas Monthly and tragically dying of an overdose in The Gay Place was Brammer's only novel.
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