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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.
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Mallon's latest novel is an engaging love story that is set in the '50s but has implications into the '90s and beyond. It isn't truly literary–the language will not be memorable–but its setting of a homosexual affair in the turbulent times of the McCarthy era is fascinating. How did some survive and others did not? It's not going to appeal to the Christian right, but for the rest of us its themes of forbidden love and idealogical zeal will give us something to think about.
I had to read this before watching the tv show because the tv show trailer looked really good!
It was so hard to finish this book, no shade to the author, but I don't recommend this for the baddies bad at history/politics