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Jailbird

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

320 pages

About this book

This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator.

Themes
Funny & SatiricalThought-ProvokingDark & BroodingWhat Does It All Mean?Political & PowerThe absurdity of bureaucracyThe corruption of powerIndividual complicity in systemic failure
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