| Jack Gance Contributor(s): Just, Ward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0395856027 ISBN-13: 9780395856024 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: In this passionate and revealing tale of Washington politics, Ward Just tells the story of a young pollster who becomes a savvy political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues. And the payment turns out to be a dirty, or at least a cloudy, business. Jack Gance tells how the dues are paid and how one political devotee spends his life in politics, wastes his love on married women, and finally learns who his true mistress is. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88026021 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.58" W x 8.55" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business. Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learns who his true mistress is: I had arrived an apprentice from Chicago, but Washington had taken care of that. It was a great city. . . . It gave and gave and gave and gave and expected nothing in return but loyalty. |
Contributor Bio(s): Just, Ward: - WARD JUST's novels include Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. |