{"product_id":"gus-the-great-2","title":"Gus the Great","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Thomas W. Duncan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Dell F50\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1947 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.50\u003cbr\u003eCondition: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintagebookseller.myshopify.com\/pages\/paperback-book-grading\" title=\"Book Grades\"\u003eBook Grades. \u003c\/a\u003e  Very Good Minus. Light wear\u003cbr\u003eGenre:  Fiction\/GGA\/Pulp Fiction\/Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePages: 639\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e80126008E\u003cmark class=\"HxTRcb\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"eujQNb\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"Yjhzub\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"T286Pc\"\u003e\u003cu class=\"wfWfIf fxyaSe\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan role=\"button\" class=\"jAOkJc\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/mark\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003eThe book follows the rise and fall of Augustus \"Gus\" Burgoyne\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e, a man deeply driven by an intense desire for money, power, and a peculiar obsession with elephants. The book is about a man named Gus Burgoyne who was crazy about elephants, power, and money. as described in historical reviews from the \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1947\/09\/21\/archives\/barkers-liontamers-ponderous-pachyderms-gus-the-great-by-thomas-w.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[[\u0026quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1947\/09\/21\/archives\/barkers-liontamers-ponderous-pachyderms-gus-the-great-by-thomas-w.html\u0026quot;,null,null,[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[{\u0026quot;1218\u0026quot;:[16]}]],16,null,\u0026quot;Barkers, Lion-Tamers, Ponderous Pachyderms; GUS THE ...\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;WE seem to be getting back to the inflated three-deck- er novels that were rampant be- fore the war, when the saga went gaga. Ben Ames Williams has already reached an ominous sky limit in what is apparently a kind of verbatim transcript of the Civil War, and other formi- dable accumulations of more or less imaginative words on paper are at hand, illustrating the pos- sibly faulty notion that if 350 pages are good, 700 pages are twice as good, and so on until the paper forests run out and erosion seizes the lands where they grew. One of these is \\\u0026quot;Gus the Great,\\\u0026quot; a loquacity-struck novel that would probably be twice as entertaining if it were half as long. There is, in a way, a justifica- tion for the jumbo size of \\\u0026quot;Gus the Great,\\\u0026quot; since it is about a man who was crazy over ele- phants. He was also strikingly fond of power and money, though that does not mean that the book might appropriately be the size of Fort Knox. 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