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Banana Republican : from the Buchanan file / Eric Rauchway.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.A914 B36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rauchway, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buchanan, Tom (Fictitious character : Ward)--Fiction.
- Buchanan, Tom (Fictitious character : Ward).
- History.
- Central America.
- Central America--History--1821-1951--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 237 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- Summary:
- Depicted as braggart, brute, and bore in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan has gotten a bad rap and means to correct the record. That weak-kneed, simpering cousin of his wife's, with his prattling about some lost idealized American individualism and rectitude, was not only a fool and a liar, but worse: a failed bond salesman. But by 1924 Tom has bigger problems than the pathos of the summer of '22. First, there's Aunt Gertrude, who has assumed control of the Buchanan fortune. Second, what with Daisy getting jowly and the maids indiscreet, there's little tranquillity at home. Third, a revolution is brewing in Nicaragua that's threatening to ensnare the family investments. So when Tom is dispatched to maneuver among Nicaragua's international corporate intrigues, machine-gun-toting rival political parties, and competing American intelligence agencies, he spies his chance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 237).
- ISBN:
- 9780374298944
- 0374298947
- OCLC:
- 456171363
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