Take, for instance, this representative passage about former US ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick: “Her relationship with George Shultz was better than what she’d had with Alexander Haig, his predecessor at State, but Jeane was still stronger drink than Shultz preferred and Reagan, who found Shultz soothing, was determined to keep him happy - no matter how much the president himself liked Mrs. Thomas Mallon’s new novel, “Finale,’’ his ninth work of fiction, bills itself as a “Novel of the Reagan Years.” This, on the one hand, isn’t exactly true: The book mostly limits its focus to the latter half of 1986, when Ronald Reagan was struggling to broker a nuclear arms deal with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev while also trying to survive the Iran-Contra scandal.īut, on the other hand, the novel’s subtitle is entirely accurate: Seemingly every human being associated in some way, at some time, with Reagan during his eight years as president, appears in this book. Courtesy of the White House/Getty Images globe staff photo illustration
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