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Jack Gance [Paperback]

Ward JUST (Author)

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Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (1989)
Language: English
ASIN: B000UZV8BK
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,623,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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WARD JUST is the author of fifteen previous novels, including the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best..., February 21, 2001

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...and he's one of the best writers in America. Fascinating and well-written story of a family, their talented but twisted son, and how the process of getting to Washington is so corrupt and corrupting that by the time you get there you have already lost the goal you started to seek. The ultimate in inside politics...and as pointed out by other reviewers, a nice trip for nostalgic baby boomers from the early part of the boom (like me, b. 1944). A good place to start on Just if he's new to you; a classic to savor if you know his work already.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Written Portrait of a Political Man, March 9, 2006

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This is a compelling novel, beautifully written and thoughtful, about a political operative who becomes a senator. Just's prose is graceful and his organization flawless. Among the many pleasures of this book are its secondary characters: the portrait of political fixer and lawyer Elly Mozart is a masterpiece of wit, to choose just one example. The major theme, of politics as compromise, is subtly handled.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good., May 2, 1999

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Solid Just. Part Chicago, part federal politics. All real. Read it. You should.

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Sorrows of Young Werther (Everymans Library) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe on page 57
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