Tom Fool
eBook - ePub

Tom Fool

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eBook - ePub

Tom Fool

About this book

'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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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571320837
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction
  8. Contents
  9. Prologue: 1942
  10. Part I
  11. Part II
  12. Part III
  13. Epilogue: 1942
  14. Copyright