The Importance of Conviction in Political Novels

Frank's observations about American life, accompanying them on the journey from the strip mall to the diner. The journey that they take that is both funny and tragic is to Mount Rushmore. "I'm a believer that everything that happens on ground level is somehow determined by things happening under public sphere" 'If I can have something compelling happen in a car with two people, then I know it has radiant lines toward larger social, communal, philosophical, emotional issues'