6/30/2023 0 Comments Finale a novel of the reagan years![]() ![]() The Reykjavik summit produces some of Mallon's best writing. ![]() Hitchens arrives to report and issue cynical observations between cocktails, while Harriman knows that a successful summit for Reagan could scuttle her plans to help the Democrats take over the Senate in the ’86 midterms. Anders tags along as a stealth observer for the old cold warrior Nixon, who worries that Nancy Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz will pressure the president into disastrous concessions. The more public story deals with the seminal events of Reagan's second term: the 1986 arms-control summit with Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Iran-Contra affair, which erupted that same year.Īll the book’s key players have a stake in Iceland. Two major stories unfold in Finale: one tracking the historical record and the other delving into the private life of Anders Little. ![]()
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