Tom Fool

By David Stacton

Book Overview

'Yes, it was a crusade. But just what was it the people out there feared and hated so much? Not surely the candidate. He was a decent man. Or was that it?'

With Tom Fool (1962) David Stacton concluded a triptych of novels drawn from the history of America. For this final panel he turned his eye on politics. The titular protagonist is a fictional rendering of Wendell Wilkie, unlikely Republican challenger to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1940. As 'Tom Fool' endures an epic campaigning tour of thirty-one states - assisted (or dogged) by his political advisor 'Sideboard' and husband-and-wife PR consultants the Pattersons - he finds himself uncomfortably reminded that America, in its vastness and contradictions, is more than one country, and a unique conundrum to one who would be President.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571320821
• ISBN13: 9780571320820
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.1"