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Title: Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years
Author: Thomas Mallon
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2015-09-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern timesRonald Reagan.
Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, 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 novels memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with whom the president long ago appeared on screen. Several figuresincluding a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reaganbecome the eyes through which listeners see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a clash of ideologies, and a political revolution. At the center of it allbut forever out of reachis Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him.
An intriguing, humorous, even catty backstage view of the Reagan presidency from an artisan of the historical novelMallons version of history is close enough to fact to revive faded memories, while his imagining of who thought and said what presents some of the coherence and delights of fiction.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)