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Capa de President Kissinger

a novel ·

President Kissinger

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Maurice Girodias' most self-destructive endeavor. By now, the Olympia Press had virtually ceased to exist and Girodias was publishing a single series of books under the Freeway Press imprint. The novel was to be a biography of Kissinger, had become …

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Maurice Girodias' most self-destructive endeavor. By now, the Olympia Press had virtually ceased to exist and Girodias was publishing a single series of books under the Freeway Press imprint. The novel was to be a biography of Kissinger, had become President after the Constitutional provision requiring the President to be a native-born citizen was changed by an Act of Congress. The novel contained several erotic passages, including a steamy encounter between Kissinger and a Prussian noblewoman in a Heidelberg Inn, which Girodias refused to delete. U.S. government authorities were not amused, and the State and Justice Departments intervened. Despite a personal letter of appeal to Kissinger in which Girodias stated that the novel was not pornographic, but rather "a work of 'political fiction' that can only be seen as a vibrant homage to your political intuitions," Girodias was served deportation papers.

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"Maurice Girodias' most self-destructive endeavor. By now, the Olympia Press had virtually ceased to exist and Girodias was publishing a single series of books under the Freeway Press imprint. The …"

— Margaret

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