Robert Petkoff
1) Landfall
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At once witty and sad, Mallon novelizes George W. Bush's second term, as his aspirations toward greatness are thrown into upheaval by the twin catastrophes of Iraq and Katrina. Landfall has at its center a president whose high-speed shifts between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify those around him -- including his acerbic and crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; the desperately correct but...