A review by brooklynbrianreads
Landfall by Thomas Mallon
4.0
Smart and thoroughly engaging novel about the George W. Bush presidency. As part of my attempt to better understand post-9/11 America, this was a great place to start and get introduced to major and minor characters in W's administration (Karen Hughes, Brett Kavanaugh, Condi, Rumsfeld, Laura Bush etc).
W is self-aware, self-deprecating and conscious of how his staffers set him up for failure or success. A staffer reckons that "Half the time he was without self-confidence; the other half he spilled an excess of it.." Laura, on the other hand, worries about "how long it would be before the quick, constant movements between overindulgence and athletic self-punishment broke the spring of her husband’s metronome."
Cannot wait to read the two other Mallon books about Reagan and Nixon.
W is self-aware, self-deprecating and conscious of how his staffers set him up for failure or success. A staffer reckons that "Half the time he was without self-confidence; the other half he spilled an excess of it.." Laura, on the other hand, worries about "how long it would be before the quick, constant movements between overindulgence and athletic self-punishment broke the spring of her husband’s metronome."
Cannot wait to read the two other Mallon books about Reagan and Nixon.