β Scribed by Louis Auchincloss
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A novel about a powerful public intellectual --and about what is true in the end--by an acclaimed New York Times -bestselling author.
Felix Leitner has been a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, an advisor to presidents, an author of influential books, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. For decades he professed an unswerving commitment to intellectual truth. His stands weren't always popular, but in the eyes of millions, he had the stature of an oracle.
Now he is in his eighties and confined to a nursing home, and his longtime research assistant and protege, Roger Cutter, is determined to compile a chronicle of his mentor's life--for complex personal reasons as well as for posterity's sake. The House of the Prophet presents Felix from the point of view of multiple narrators, including his two ex-wives, his stepdaughter, and a former law partner. The portrait that takes shape from...
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