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Not since 1960, when 25 policemen were implicated in a burglary ring, had the police of Des Moines been so scandalized. "It's unbelievable," said City Manager Tom Chenoweth. "I've never seen anything like it." The Police Burial & Protective Association issued a statement of repudiation. The police...
Kastenmeier meanwhile was getting varied opinions from journalists. Investigative reporters would be the prime beneficiaries of a shield law, but Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative work, testified that journalists should fight subpoenas on an individual basis, relying on the...
Des Moines is the setting of this dark allegory: as an environment it grows (or decays) along with the story. The narrator is obsessed by it.
This country, Iowa. I can tell you about it. It is so much of me that sometimes I am confused: sometimes I believe it is more important--that is the land and the city, Des Moines, that speaks through me, using me the way I imagine I am using them...
The Sledge family lives in Des Moines, and their mythic existence in this hinterland at America's heart forms the main thread of the action. Luke Sledge, who drinks a pint of whiskey a day and two on Saturday ("the cells of his body gulped whiskey like a tree drinking...