Book description
When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's
fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford
Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as
well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.
John Updike author of Rabbit, Run and other celebrated works, is a
preeminent American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.