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Your review of John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company [May 31], instigated the following speculation. If other historical miscreants had written novels based on their experiences, American literature would have been enriched by the following: a psychological study of treason by Benedict Arnold, detailing how a simple soldier was pressured by society to become a turncoat: a thriller by John Wilkes Booth showing how he was really a misunderstood hero who had been seduced into crime by evil Yankee villainy; a political novel by Jefferson Davis, describing the daily life and irritations of a fictional President...
...acts for the rest of his life, but there were several other importaat political expressions and acts that Heymann examines. Pound's radio broadcasts from Italy during the war, his reputed attempt to leave Italy on the last American diplomatic train out of the country, his trial for treason and the issue of his insanity, and finally the furor over the award to Pound of prizes for his poetry. Of these four problems, Heymann's State Department documents bring new light to three...
Rand said national politicians are guilty of "intellectual treason"--failure to perceive the American public's yearning for renewed sanctity of the work ethic and for an end to "the Welfare State, that dream of the philosophically illiterate...
...most personal and moving poems, the great Pisan Cantos. With eyes unsealed by shock, Pound finally saw himself as he was seen-a vain "beaten dog beneath the hail/ A swollen magpie in a fitful sun." He was flown back to the States to face trial for treason, but the case never came to judgment. Declared hopelessly insane. Pound was committed to a federal bedlam in the District of Columbia...
...amnesty movement was organized, and Robert Frost was invited to the Eisenhower White House to discuss "this difficult individual." On April 18, 1958, advised by psychiatrists that Pound was too crazy to stand trial but not crazy enough to need confinement, a federal judge dismissed the treason indictment and ordered the 72-year-old poet's release...