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Inez Victor understands that the major casualty of the political life is memory space. However the people around Inez have made professions out of dropping trail. Her senator spouse wants to your investment inability of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's daddy is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which a lot of this bitterly funny book is defined, America is doing its best to lose an eye on its one-time customer, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam. As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and happenings constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also contains fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international hands market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, Democracy is a travel de power from a article writer who can dissect a whole society with a single phrase.