Landfall
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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 and mystify those around him--including his acerbic and crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; the desperately correct but occasionally unbuttoned Condoleezza Rice; the gnomic and manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; and the caustic observer Ann Richards (Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas). A gallery of political and media figures, from the widowed Nancy Reagan to the philandering John Edwards to the brilliantly contrarian Christopher Hitchens, bring the novel and the era to life. The story is deepened and driven by two West Texans: Ross Weatherall and Allison O'Connor, whose destinies have been affixed to Bush's since they were teenagers in the 1970s; a true believer and skeptic who end up exchanging ideological places in a romantic and political drama that unfolds in locations from New Orleans to Baghdad, and during the parties, press conferences and state funerals of Washington, D. C. Landfall is the culmination of a contemporary epic whose previous volumes (Watergate and Finale) have been repeatedly singled out as outstanding novels of the years in which they appeared.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 473 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781101871058
1101871059
SUBJECTS
Bush, George W. -- 1946- -- Fiction.
Presidents -- Fiction.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Fiction.
Political fiction.
Historical fiction.