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From the writer of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic chief executive of contemporary times - Ronald Reagan. Finale calls for listeners to the politics gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic surroundings of Iceland, where in fact the president partcipates in two almost apocalyptic times of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Along with Soviet dissidents, unlawful arms merchants, and antinuclear activists, the novel's memorable people include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with whom the chief executive long ago appeared on screen. Several statistics - including a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an stressed, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan - end up being the eyes through which listeners see the last convulsions of the Cool War, the Helps epidemic, a clash of ideologies, and a politics revolution. At the center of it all - but permanently out of reach - is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the individuals who elected him.
