Drury continues his alternate history of late Twentieth century America begun with Advise and Consent. The book ends in something of a cheat: an explosion which threatens the husbands and wives of a "unity" Presidential ticket. Only Drury doesn't tell the ready who survives. For the answer you mu...
This book challenges its prospective reader with an impressive 638 pages; each page of text is of 47(!) close-spaced lines (compare to 39 lines per page in a 1999 ppbk of Sebastian Faulks’ “Charlotte Gray”, and 23 lines per page in a 2005 ppbk of Frank Beddor’s “The Looking Glass Wars”. How long,...