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Pantheon
May 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0375423486
EAN: 9780375423482
Hardcover
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Fiction
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey
Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the
competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the
McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of
bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers,
dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew
Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy. Into this fevered
city steps Timothy Laughlin, a recent Fordham graduate and
devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism.
A chance encounter with a handsome, profligate State
Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first
job in D.C. and–after Fuller’s advances–his first love
affair. Now, as McCarthy mounts an increasingly desperate
bid for power and internal investigations focus on “sexual
subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever
more dangerous to navigate their double lives. Drawn into a
maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, and clinging to the
friendship of a beautiful young woman named Mary Johnson,
Tim struggles to reconcile his political convictions, his
love for God, and his love for Fuller–an entanglement that
will end in a stunning act of betrayal. Moving between the Senate Office Building and the Washington
Evening Star, the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and
NATO’s front line in Europe, Fellow Travelers is energized
by high political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine
heartbreak. It is Thomas Mallon’s most accomplished and
daring novel to date.
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