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A Novel of the Reagan Years
Pantheon
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
480 pages
ISBN: 0307907929
EAN: 9780307907929
Kindle: B00RKO0KNG
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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. Finale captures 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 novel’s memorable characters
include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman,
John W. Hinckley, Jr. (Reagan’s would-be assassin), and even
Bette Davis, with whom the president had long ago appeared
onscreen. Several figures—including 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)—become 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 all—but forever out of reach—is Ronald
Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his
subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him. Finale is the book that Thomas Mallon’s 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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