{"product_id":"landfall-9781101971352","title":"Landfall","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years—amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina—\u003ci\u003eLandfall \u003c\/i\u003ebrings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with \u003ci\u003eWatergate \u003c\/i\u003eand continue with \u003ci\u003eFinale,\u003c\/i\u003e to a vivid and emotional climax.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify the panoply of characters around him. They include his acerbic, crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; his desperately correct and eager-to-please secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice; the gnomic and manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; foreign leaders from Tony Blair to Vladimir Putin; and the caustic one-woman chorus of Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas. A gallery of political and media figures, from the widowed Nancy Reagan to the philandering Jo","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528804540759,"sku":"9781101971352","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781101971352.jpg?v=1731873076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landfall-9781101971352","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}