Okay it might not be the sort of book about Kansas and ruby-red slippers that L Frank Baum could write - maybe more in Joseph Conrad's line : "the horror! , the horror!".
But I seriously think there is a book there , a psychologically-probing examination about "Charlie G" Koch's magnificent obsession over the sad fate of his father Fred's science/scientism.
Robert Heinlein would do it up right, in a full-bodied, red meat, take-no-prisoners style.
Bit of pity that he, like Baum,Conrad and Fred, is dead and buried.
Surely Fox News must know some ghost writers: the DENIER movement would be lost without them (or without the Kochs).
Chris Mooney, from a different perspective, could also do it up right.
Ditto Maureen Dowd - she really knows how to get under the skin of her victim and fester there.....
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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