Title: A phony and poseur inspired by "Little Big Man"
Product review: In Thomas Berger's fine novel of the Old West "Little Big Man" the hero, Jack Crabb, goes everywhere and knows everybody, including being the sole white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It's an excellent premise for a historical novel, and appears to have inspired Stew, whom I met when he was briefly in the Progressive Labor Party in San Francisco in the 1960s. The rest of his "revolutionary" adventures are imaginary. He's clever enough to have waited until most of the famous people he fantasizes about knowing are dead, and cannot refute his claims. If he were as good a writer as Berger we could forgive his fibs; unfortunately he's not.
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