Description
NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS - A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.--a world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy--and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. - From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun "Crisp, buoyant prose." --The New York Times Book Review
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe.
Author: Thomas Mallon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/06/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.12w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780307388902
ISBN10: 0307388905
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe.
Author: Thomas Mallon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/06/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.12w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780307388902
ISBN10: 0307388905
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
About the Author
Thomas Mallon is the author of the novels Bandbox, Henry and Clara, and Dewey Defeats Truman; In Fact, a collection of essays; and the nonfiction books Stolen Words, A Book of One's Own, and Mrs. Paine's Garage. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and other magazines, he lives in Washington, D.C.