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The Man

By: Irving Wallace
Narrated by: Rhett S. Price
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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.

©1964 David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace, Heirs to Irving Wallace (P)2013 David N. Wilson Genre Fiction Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Espionage Fiction Africa Law Social justice Russia

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The story started well but soon became quite predictable and ended more like a sensationalised novella than a mature piece of fiction. However, the worst part was the narration. The performance was amateur, littered with mispronounciations, appalling attempts at regional dialects and dreadfully overacted. In the future, I will avoid other works by this narrator.
All in all, a very mediocre experience.

It passed a few hours but not terribly enjoyable.

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