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Fellow Travelers: A Novel
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NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS • A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.—a world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy—and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. • From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun
“Crisp, buoyant prose.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Crisp, buoyant prose.” —The New York Times Book Review
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first job and, after Fuller’s advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on “sexual subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO’s front line in Europe.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Vintage (24 April 2007) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 710 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 370 pages |
by Felix Lee
Absolutely amazing book. You’ll need at least a certain level of interest in American politics and history but, if you do, it’s fantastic. The love story is beautifully and heartbreakingly told. Strong recommendation!
by Steve
Set in the McCarthy era of the 1950s, this is a fascinating reenactment of the tensions and compulsions fuelling US politics at the time. It took me a bit to get my head round the large cast of characters but the evocation of the nastiness and stupidity of the McCarthy hearings and the witch hunt against gay men in government service is vivid and enthralling. At the heart of the story is a spasmodic affair between Tim, a young, right-wing, gay graduate (working for a senator on the Hill) and Hawkins Fuller, a rising State Department Official. The story plays the infatuation of Tim against the cynical exploitation of him by Fuller. Fuller is the supremely self-confident survivor, Tim young, vulnerable but determined. Yet the relationship between the two men is a love story and it is told with exquisite skill.