We see the young Christopher Hitchens-his incisive, acerbic voice lending a powerful counterpoint to events as they unfold. We see Nancy Reagan-brooding, protective, consulting her astrologist at every turn. In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes months in 1986 when-with the Iran-Contra affair, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reykjavik summit with Gorbachev-Reagan and those around him were shaping history. Louis Post-Dispatchīefore there was Reagan the conservative icon, there was Reagan the president: genial, unknowable, faced with doubters, scandals, and the final throes of the Cold War. One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, St.
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