Description: To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). In what the author calls “a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play,” Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. This definitive edition includes a Foreword by Updike, discussing early productions of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and its kinship to his later novel Memories of the Ford Administration. A wide-ranging Afterword fleshes out this dramatic portrait of one of America’s lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Buchanan Dying : a Play
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: United States / 19th Century, American / General, American Government / Executive Branch
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Drama, Political Science, History
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Author: John Updike
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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