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Article: Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters.(Allen Ginsberg)(Jack Kerouac)(Neal Cassady)(Brief Article)
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- June 22, 2000
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On June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New York World Telegram wrote a long letter to an old friend in San Jose. The letter ends by reproducing a telegraph sent to President Eisenhower protesting what David Caute has called "the midsummer's night of postwar anti-Communist, anti-Soviet hysteria" (62)--the electrocution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the so-called atom spies: "Rosenbergs are pathetic, government Will sordid, execution obscene America caught in crucifixion machine only barbarians want them burned I say stop it before we fill our souls with death-house horror" (Ginsberg, As Ever 150). Since the copyboy was Allen Ginsberg and the ...
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