Tom Fool
Overview
'Yes, it was a crusade. But just what was it the people out there feared and hated so much? Not surely the candidate. He was a decent man. Or was that it?'
With Tom Fool (1962) David Stacton concluded a triptych of novels drawn from the history of America. For this final panel he turned his eye on politics. The titular protagonist is a fictional rendering of Wendell Wilkie, unlikely Republican challenger to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1940. As 'Tom Fool' endures an epic campaigning tour of thirty-one states - assisted (or dogged) by his political advisor 'Sideboard' and husband-and-wife PR consultants the Pattersons - he finds himself uncomfortably reminded that America, in its vastness and contradictions, is more than one country, and a unique conundrum to one who would be President.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780571320820
- ISBN-10: 0571320821
- Publisher: Faber Finds
- Publish Date: November 2014
- Dimensions: 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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