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...Like most American schoolboys," says Marvin Kitman, "I had heard the story of how George Washington offered to serve his country during the Revolutionary War without salary. In one of the most stirring speeches in the annals of patriotism, he explained after his election as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in June 1775 that all he asked of his new country was that it pick up his expenses...
...ending June 1783, Comprehending a Space of 8 Years." It was published in 1833 by the Chief Clerk in the Register's Office of the Treasury Department. Eight years later it reappeared under different auspices with the title "A Monument to Washington's Patriotism." Coauthor Kitman came across this historical curiosity at the New York Public Library while he was researching a proposed epic entitled The Making of the Prefident...
Some writers, of course, use pseudonyms for the sheer fun of it. It was never very credible that a man named William Randolph Hirsch wrote the Red Chinese Air Force Exercise, Diet & Sex Book. In a review of the manual, Humorist Marvin Kitman revealed that he was the author, with an assist from other editors of Monocle magazine. Not that he entirely approves of the practice. "The four most shocking pseudonyms in use today," he confides, "are Walter Lippmann, Art Buchwald, James Reston and Arthur Krock...
...Sure, I love the freedom to work 18 hours a day," says Marvin Kitman, who has written some 125 humorous articles for assorted magazines. "And to brood on the one day off I take each month." Ken Purdy, who turns out 25 pieces a year, both fiction and nonfiction, says, "It's great not to be responsible to anyone, but then there are those mornings when you wake up at 3 a.m. and know you've had the last idea of your life." "You don't belong to anyone, and you can ski when you please," says...
William Randolph Hirsch is really three staffers on Monocle, a New York humor magazine-Marvin Kitman, Victor Navasky and Richard Lingeman. Their book combines a spoof of self-help manuals on how to be thin, agile and potent with a parody of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which after all is also a self-help book. In the Hirsch version of Chinese ideology, eating is as much a bourgeois deviation as making love. The book advances the remarkable theory that "under Communism, sex is work. Under capitalism, work...