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03299aam a22005058i 4500 001 0894099A373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 180424s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018018277 020 $a 1101871059 020 $a 9781101871058 035 $a (OCoLC)1033547975 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ZVR $d YOL $d OCLCO $d PPN $d HEV $d DCH $d MYL $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3563.A43157 $b L36 2019 082 0 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Mallon, Thomas, $d 1951- $e author. $9 149113 245 10 $a Landfall / $c Thomas Mallon. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 473 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Bush, George W. $q (George Walker), $d 1946- $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Fiction. $9 212203 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2001-2009 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802185 655 7 $a Political fiction. $2 lcgft $9 231042 941 $a 13 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014811.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409032750.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210021902.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722060521.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529015225.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204094436.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110080750.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20191018011409.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20191008012727.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20191001011112.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190418010328.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190403010259.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190323010829.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0894099A373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search