Truman Capote be exposed to the public. Another two chapters – "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud" – appeared subsequently. The essays were intended to form the long opening section of the novel, they displayed a marked shift in narrative voice, introduced a more elaborate plot structure, and together formed a novella-length mosaic of fictionalized memoir and gossip. "Unspoiled Monsters", which by itself was almost as long as "Breakfast at Tiffany's", contained a thinly veiled satire of Tennessee Williams, whose friendship with Capote had become strained. "La Côte Basque 1965" was published as an individual chapter in "Esquire" magazine in November 1975. The
Dewey Defeats Truman copy of the paper during a stop at St. Louis Union Station while returning by train from his home in Independence, Missouri, to Washington, D.C. The "Tribune", which had once referred to Truman as a "nincompoop", was a famously Republican-leaning paper. In a retrospective article over half a century later about the newspaper's most famous and embarrassing headline, the "Tribune" wrote that Truman "had as low an opinion of the "Tribune" as it did of him". For about a year prior to the 1948 general election, the printers who operated the linotype machines at the "Chicago Tribune" and other Chicago