Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West

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I know many of us knew about this book, but
I doubt mainstream Americans do. Thanks Patt
for getting your point made in first four paragraphs!

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-morrison11aug11,1,3757755.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison

August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading inclines to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John Dean and Tommy Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known political figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the heroine with her late sister's husband), incest (half brother knocks up half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband's friend), contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the heroine's sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband became one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before the author became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is … aha, you thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is a frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's sexy and it's out of print.

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