Thomas Mallon
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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"--Dust jacket flap.
4) Landfall
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From "a master of the historical novel" (Newsweek), whose fiction "unfolds with the urgency of a thriller" (The New Yorker), the tumultuous -- at once witty and sad -- chronicle of George W. Bush's second term, as his aspirations toward greatness are thrown into upheaval by the twin catastrophes of Iraq and Katrina. LANDFALL has at its center a president whose high-speed shifts between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize...
