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Indlæser... The Man (1964)af Irving Wallace
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Douglass Dilman. Senador. Americano. Preto. E agora, por uma série de tragédias acidentais vê-se no lugar de sucessor do Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América, na Casa Branca. Num tempo do Movimento dos Direitos Civis americanos, e da incerteza nuclear da guerra fria contra a União Soviética, Wallace leva-nos, através duma narrativa linear, quase cinemática, a pensar como as múltiplas personagens de que se compõe o livro. O livro acaba com o julgamento de Dilman, que encapsula o julgamento à maturidade americana e capacidade de ultrapassar o estigma racista. Pelo caminho, acompanhamos a trama de todos os que rodeiam Dilman após a sua chegada à Sala Oval, desde os que o tentam manipular por interesses pessoais políticos, os que o tentam manipular por pertencerem à mesma minoria segregada e os que o tratam como inferior devido à pigmentação da sua pele. Com uma larga panóplia de personagens, de diferentes origens, raças e posições sociais, Wallace pinta um quadro social americano dos anos 60 suficientemente claro para qualquer um poder entender todas as pressões raciais e bélicas que se sentiam na altura. Now dated, Wallace covers the only believable scenario for a Black President in the 20th Century; multiple vacancies in the order of sucession puts Senator Dillman, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, into the White House. What follows is a standard mix of sex, politics, and racism, along with some interesting explorations into the best way to legally address racism with the legal system. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: With a Foreword by James Earl Jones & A Special Afterword by Irving Wallace's son, David Wallechinsky The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States. This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life. From beginning to end, The Man is a novel of swift and tremendous drama, as President Dilman attempts to uphold his oath in the face of international crises, domestic dissension, violence, scandal, and ferocious hostility. Push comes to shove in a breathtaking climax, played out in the full glare of publicity, when the Senate of the United States meets for the first time in one hundred years to impeach the President. .No library descriptions found. |
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Having said this, I only gave this book 3 1/2 stars because it took so long to get to the interesting points. By slowly and solidly building the backgrounds of the characters and the story, it took a lot of patience to get to the part where conflicts and matters of race were injected into the daily running of the country and caused so much difficulty for President Dilman. Nevertheless, by the time I finished the book, I found that I liked it very much. The question that needs to be asked on a regular basis is: how do our black brethren in this country feel about our white countrymen? And vice versa? Can we become a colorblind society? What will it take to reach that goal? The outcome in the book is not perfect and it does not suggest that much progress will be made by having the first black president (at least in the 1960s) but it gives us hope and suggests the value of all victories — large and small — towards that goal. ( )