Fellow Travelers: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375423486 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Into this fevered city steps Timothy Laughlin, a recent Fordham graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. Drawn into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, and clinging to the friendship of a beautiful young woman named Mary Johnson, Tim struggles to reconcile his political convictions, his love for God, and his love for Fuller–an entanglement that will end in a stunning act of betrayal.Moving between the Senate Office Building and the Washington Evening Star, the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO’s front line in Europe, Fellow Travelers is energized by high political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine heartbreak. A chance encounter with a handsome, profligate State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first job in D.C. an
"A perfect rendering of the hysteria that gripped the 1950s" according to Mal Warwick. Only American history majors are likely to be aware that America’s first Red Scare was sparked in 1886 by the Haymarket affair in Chicago — a demonstration by workers calling for an eight-hour day which led to widespread persecution of men, usually foreign-born, who were perceived as anarchists. Thirty-three years later a wave of anarchist bombings in the wake of World War I induced Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to recruit a 2A perfect rendering of the hysteria that gripped the 1950s Only American history majors are likely to be aware that America’s first Red Scare was sparked in 1886 by the Haymarket affair in Chicago — a demonstration by workers calling for an eight-hour day which led to widespread persecution of men, usually foreign-born, who were perceived as anarchists. Thirty-three years later a wave of anarchist bombings in the wake of World War I induced Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to recruit a 23-year-old named J. Edgar Hoover to locate and deport hu. -year-old named J. Edgar Hoover to locate and deport hu. great read SWAMP FOX For anyone who lived through the Joe McCarthy era and followed politics, this book is a wonderful read. The characters, real and imaginary, aredescribed in vivid detail, from the McCarthy committee and entourage to gay journalist Joe Alsop, to LBJ. The political and social aspects of this part of the plot seem very authentic. It reminds me of that other chronicler of Washington politics in the 50s, Allen Drury.All of this hangs on a gay love story between a polished older aristocratic Protestant Sta. "Waste of time. Forget it." according to Sascot. Unless you are reader who works in the corridors of Capitol Hill, this book has absolutely no interest. The author has taken a theme then drowned it in political history, which will loose you completely. Characters, both real and fictitious pepper the pages, great slices of archives inserted of hearings, conversations and commentary to lend the tale relevance. I skipped pages and pages of this book which fails on so many fronts that I can only describe it as a complete waste of time. Forget it.
The District's social milieu is solidly realized, with such period icons as Mary McGrory and Drew Pearson in evidence alongside political heavyweights—McCarthy, Kennedy, Nixon and the like. From Publishers Weekly McCarthy-era Washington, D.C., is as twisted and morally compromised as a noir Los Angeles in Mallon's latest, a wide-ranging examination of betrayal and clashing ideologies. Hawkins helps Tim land a job and, after feeling out the impressionable young man, makes a place in his bed for him. Less convincing, however, is the on-again-off-again and largely one-sided relationship between Washington greenhorn Tim and cold, calculating careerist Hawkins. Mallon (Bandbox; Dewey Defeats Truman) offers an intricate, fluent and divergent perspective on a D.C. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a