Orrin's All-Time Top Ten (or twelve) List - Political
READ THIS BOOK!
When aides to a liberal incumbent President steal the Presidential election
of
2004 from a conservative ex-President, the country is plunged into
a
constitutional crisis. In short order, we find out that there
is a high level
conspiracy by a secret order of Left-Wing Yale grads to take over the
country.
The characters are cunningly etched & there are plots within plots.
But best of
all, is the acid depiction of a liberal elite that believes that they
know best
what is good for people & are willing to impose their ideas, regardless
of the
will of the voters.
This book is an excellent antidote to Wag the Dog (American Hero).
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (A)
Websites:
Charles McCarry Links:
-Charles McCarry (Wikipedia)
-FILMOGRAPHY: Charles McCarry (IMDB.com)
-Charles McCarry (Stop You're Killing Me)
-ESSAY: I Spy . . .: My favorite tales of espionage. (CHARLES MCCARRY, February 4, 2006, Opinion Journal)
-REVIEW: of War Trash by Ha Jin (Charles McCarry, Washington Post)
-REVIEW: of THE REDHUNTER: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy By William F. Buckley Jr. (Charles McCarry, NY Times Book Review)
-ARCHIVES: "Charles McCarry (Find Articles)
-ESSAY: Tales of Intrigue: The top political novels. (MELANIE KIRKPATRICK, August 26, 2006, Opinion Journal)
-PROFILE: America's Greatest Espionage Writer (OTTO PENZLER, May 17, 2006, NY Sun)
-PROFILE: Spy author's fame cloaked in secrecy (Dennis Lythgoe, 8/8/04, Deseret Morning News)
-PROFILE: He Has Seen The Future: It's in His Work: Charles McCarry's novels keep coming true. And his new book is about the end of the world. (BRIAN CARNEY, June 11, 2004, Wall Street Journal)
-PROFILE: Charles McCarry's spook tackles his final Cold War assignments: The 77-year-old author of 10 novels and numerous nonfiction works has released the latest in a series of elegant novels following Paul Christopher's missions (Steve Bennett, May 20, 2007, NY Times)
-PROFILE: Birnbaum v. Charles McCarry (Robert Birnbaum, August 9, 2004, The Morning News)
-PROFILE: Beyond Bond: Forget Fleming; lose Le Carré--Charles McCarry is the undiscovered master of the spy novel (Morton Marcus, 8/14/97, Metro Active)
-PROFILE: Getting spooked: Charles McCarry looks back at the Nazis — and ahead to Bush? (CLIF GARBODEN, May 8, 2007, Boston Phoenix)
-ESSAY: Evolution of the Modern American Spy Novel> (Katy Fletcher, April 1987, Journal of Contemporary History)
-REVIEW: of The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry (Dr. Al Chase, White Rhino Report)
-REVIEW ESSAY: Le Morte de Christopher (Douglas A. Jeffrey, Summer 2005, Claremont Review of Books)
-REVIEW ESSAY: The Great American Spy Novel: Charles McCarry and The Tears of Autumn 30 years later (BRENDAN BERNHARD, March 31, 2005, LA Weekly)
-REVIEW: of Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry (Patrick Anderson, Washington Post)
-REVIEW: of Tears of Autumn (Shane Maloney, The Age)
-REVIEW: of
-REVIEW: of The Last Supper by Charles McCarry (Jacob Heilbrunn, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of The Bride of the Wilderness By Charles McCarry (John Gross, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of Shelley's heart by Charles McCarry (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of Shelley's heart (Christopher Hitchens, NY Review of Books)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry (John J. Miller, National Review)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (Dan Froomkin, SF Chronicle)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (John Tierney, NY times)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (Owen Ullman, Business Week)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (Hal Hinson, Salon)
-REVIEW: of Lucky Bastard (Manuel Gonzales, Austin Chronicle)
-REVIEW ARCHIVES: of Old Boys by Charles McCarry (Metacritic)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Mark Lawson, The Guardian)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Charles Trueheart, Washington Post)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Daily Telegraph)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (PJ O'Rourke, Weekly Standard)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Michael Carlson, Spectator)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Sam Allis, Boston Globe)
-REVIEW: of Old Boys (Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret Morning News)
-REVIEW: of Christopher's Ghosts by Charles McCarry (Sam Allis, Houston Chronicle)
-REVIEW: of Christopher's Ghosts (Jack Batten, Toronto Star)
-REVIEW: of
-REVIEW: of CAVEAT: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy. By Alexander M. Haig (with Charles McCarry) (James Chace, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of Citizen Nader by Charles McCarry (Hays Gorey, TIME))
* The Miernik Dossier (1973)
* The Tears of Autumn (1974)
* The Secret Lovers (1977)
* The Better Angels (1979)
* The Last Supper (1983)
* The Bride of the Wilderness (1988)
* Second Sight (1991)
* Shelley's Heart (1995)
* Old Boys (2004)
* Christopher's Ghosts (2007)
Book-related and General Links:
-REVIEW:
Ode
to the West Wing (Christopher Hitchens, NY Review of Books)
-INTERVIEW:
Just
Another Day in the CIA Charles McCarry (Amazon.com)
-FIRST CHAPTER:
Lucky
Bastard
-REVIEW:
of Lucky Bastard (Owen Ullman, Business Week)
If you like political novels, try:
Anonymous
-Primary Colors
Knebel, Fletcher
-Dark Horse
-Seven Days in May
O'Connor, Edwin
-The
Last Hurrah
Warren, Robert Penn
-All the King's Men
If you think it couldn't happen here, read:
Bork, Robert H.
-The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction
of the Law
Bronner, Ethan
-Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook
America
Chambers, Whittaker
-Witness
Colodny, Len and Gettlin, Robert
-Silent Coup: The Removal of a President
Isaac, Erich and Rael
-The Coercive Utopians: Social Deception by America's
Power Players
Powers, Richard Gid
-Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism
Reeves, Thomas
-A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
