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FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 4/1/01, 3:04 PM

Hi -- I've been referencing this list, to great benefit, by way of
identifying works that might be relevant to my doctoral research in English
at the University of Chicago. I wonder if anyone could help me track down a
particular novel I remember seeing long ago, but for which I've got no
author or title:

---> It's a work of popular fiction, published sometime around 1970 or soon
thereafter, in which a (or the) main character is president of the U.S. This
fictional president is young, charismatic and "Kennedyesque" in terms of his
relationships with women, and -- unless I'm confusing two different books --
he originally came to national attention as president of the University of
California in the era of campus protests. The novel sold in chain bookstores
and may have been a minor bestseller, but I'm not sure.

I've checked the already compiled "Political Fiction" lists, by the way, but
without plot summaries I can't tell if this book might already be on one of
them -- at least, I don't recognize it from any of the titles.

Thanks for any help.

Jeff Smith

FROM: JCURTIN <[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 4:53 PM

Could it be Grass Roots by Stuart Woods?

Joan Curtin

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Subject: Political fiction stumper
From: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:53:23 -0700

---> It's a work of popular fiction, published sometime around 1970 or soon
thereafter, in which a (or the) main character is president of the U.S. This
fictional president is young, charismatic and "Kennedyesque" in terms of his
relationships with women, and -- unless I'm confusing two different books --
he originally came to national attention as president of the University of
California in the era of campus protests. The novel sold in chain bookstores
and may have been a minor bestseller, but I'm not sure.

I've checked the already compiled "Political Fiction" lists, by the way, but
without plot summaries I can't tell if this book might already be on one of
them -- at least, I don't recognize it from any of the titles.

Thanks for any help.

Jeff Smith

FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 11:50 PM

"Grass Roots" appears to be about 20 years more recent than the book I'm
after. Thanks for mentioning it, though, since the Stuart Woods series it's
part of might be helpful to me too.

What is "NoveList" and how can it be accessed?

Thanks --

Jeff Smith


> -----Original Message-----
> From: JCURTIN [[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:14 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: RE: Political Fiction Stumper
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> Could it be Grass Roots by Stuart Woods?
>
> Joan Curtin

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