Ebook {Epub PDF} Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon

In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes months in when--with the Iran-Contra affair, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reykjavik summit with Gorbachev--Reagan and those around him were shaping history. We see Nancy Reagan--brooding, protective, consulting her astrologist at every turn.4/5(4). 7 rows ·  · Reading Group Guide. The questions, discussion topics, and reading list that follow are intended to Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. For those readers who have lived through the Reagan years, Finale, A Novel of the Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon will almost seem more heavily weighted towards history than historical fiction. We see the prime actors of the Reagan years as they try to negotiate an arms control agreement and an acceptance on the part of the Soviets of “Star Wars.”/5().

'Finale' review: A novel of the Reagan years that's packed with real-life barbs political novel, Thomas Mallon thanks a number of people committed to preserving the legacy of Ronald. In Thomas Mallon's new novel, Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, our fortieth President emerges as an enigmatic figure. Alternately muddle-headed and brilliantly articulate, Mallon's Reagan is hard to read. by Thomas Mallon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, Covering a momentous several months in , this is an intriguing, humorous, even catty backstage view of the Reagan presidency from an artisan of the historical novel. Mallon (Watergate, , etc.) picks up the political narrative a couple of years after his previous, Nixon-era novel.

A Novel Of Ronald And Nancy Reagan Books have their time for readers, and this was not the proper time for me to read Thomas Mallon's novel, "Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years". As with so many Americans, I am saturated and dismayed by the current presidential election and wish it were over at last. In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes months in when--with the Iran-Contra affair, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reykjavik summit with Gorbachev--Reagan and those around him were shaping history. We see Nancy Reagan--brooding, protective, consulting her astrologist at every turn. "Thomas Mallon's latest historical novel, 'Finale,' picks up effortlessly from his last. And 'Watergate' () is a tough act to follow [Mallon] devotes a huge amount of attention to the Reykjavik arms summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, an event he captures right down to the white Reagan raincoat, with the president's.