Buchanan Dying
A Play
Fiction & Literature, Drama, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
| Author: | John Updike | ISBN: | 9780812984910 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group | Publication: | April 9, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Random House | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Updike |
| ISBN: | 9780812984910 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Publication: | April 9, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Random House |
| Language: | English |
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America’s lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America’s lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.
