β Scribed by Thomas Mallon
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern times.
Finalecaptures the crusading ideologies, blunders, and glamour of the still-hotly-debated Reagan years, taking readers to the political gridiron of Washington, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Along with Soviet dissidents, illegal-arms traders, and antinuclear activists, the novelβs memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, Jr. (Reaganβs would-be assassin), and even Bette Davis, with whom the president had long ago appeared onscreen. Several figuresβincluding a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan (on the verge of a terrible realization)βbecome the eyes through which readers see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and a political revolution.
At the center of it allβbut forever out of reachβis Ronald Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him.
Finaleis the book that Thomas Mallonβs work has been building toward for years. It is the most entertaining and panoramic novel about American politics since*Advise and Consent,*more than a half century ago.
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