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Traces the fortunes of Jack Gance--a man on the rise in American politics--as he moves from Chicago pollster to Senator in Washington, D.C
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In this passionate and revealing tale of Washington politics, Ward Just tells the story of a young pollster who becomes a savvy political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues. And the payment turns out to be a dirty, or at least a cloudy, business. Jack Gance tells how the dues are paid and how one political devotee spends his life in politics, wastes his love on married women, and finally learns who his true mistress is.
About the Author
Ward Just is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the National book Award finalist Echo House and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award. In a career that began as a war correspondent for Newsweek and the Washington Post, Just has lived and written in half a dozen countries, including Britain, France, and Vietnam. His characters often lead public lives as politicians, civil servants, soldiers, artists, and writers. It is the tension between public duty and private conscience that animates much of his fiction, including Forgetfulness. Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, divide their time between Martha’s Vineyard and Paris.
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- PublisherRobert Hale
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0709041780
- ISBN 13 9780709041788
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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Robert Hale, London England, 1990
ISBN 10: 0709041780
ISBN 13: 9780709041788
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Jack Gance grows up in Chicago, the son of a real estate tycoon who chooses to go to jail for tax evasion than accept the help of Chicago lawyers. Eighteen-year-old Jack learns a brutal lesson about loyalty and the workings of Chicago's political machine. When he evenutally returns to Chicago to pursue his old dream of running for the US Senate himself, he faces some of his hardest choices and struggles to find a sense of personal nobility in a game that puts loyalty above all else. Tiny mark to edge of D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 021972
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