
Finale
A Novel of the Reagan Years
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Narrado por:
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Christopher Lane
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De:
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Thomas Mallon
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 times - Ronald 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 novel's 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 figures - including a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan - become 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 all - but forever out of reach - is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him.
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Impressionistic and fun but not much there
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Sophisticated gossip gives way to poignancy
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Gore Vidal for the 21st Century
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I have the eternal problem of historical fiction whenever I am not expert in the players: what parts of this are verifiably true, what parts not? For example, Christopher Hitchens is a character here, but were his dalliances and statements, as told here, correct? How much is fabricated?
As for the dementia-POV part, I was not terribly impressed: it was an interesting concept, but mediocre in execution, in my opinion. Its main benefit was being mercifully short.
The portrayal of Ronald Reagan, to the extent I know it, rings true.
Odd choices of characters
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