Thomas Mallon, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-014440-6
Mallon discusses texts that are suspiciously similar, cites specific cases of plagiarism and concludes that literary predators are recidivistic, while society is reluctant to punish them. ``Although ably researched and enthusiastic and clever in...
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Thomas Mallon. Pantheon, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-307-90792-9
In this novel, Mallon (Watergate) fixes his wide-angle historical lens on the presidency of Ronald Reagan, in particular the events leading up to the exposé of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986. As befitting the author’s usual literary mode, Reagan...
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Thomas Mallon. Pantheon, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-37872-9
Mallon’s historical novels have been moving steadily closer to the present, from the Lincoln era through the Gilded and Jazz ages to the 1940s and, with Fellow Travelers, his last book, the McCarthy era. Here he takes on the ’70s, which, depending...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Pantheon Books $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-40025-4
Mallon's fifth novel invokes the central themes of his last three--astronomy (Aurora 7), 19th-century Washington (Henry & Clara) and the common ground of social and sexual politics (Dewey Defeats Truman). Unfortunately, the result is as studied as...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Pantheon Books $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40916-5
Mid-length book reviews are a tough sell when put between covers, but the pedigree here will make this collection a must-have for the drier side of the Inside.com set. Mallon is the author of five respected historical novels (Henry and Clara, etc.)...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Pantheon Books $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-44425-1
The title of this beautifully controlled novel, Mallon's fourth, refers to the famously inaccurate newspaper headline that appeared the morning after Election Day in 1948. But when the narrator here tells us that the clock tower in Owosso, Mich.,...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-395-59071-3
It is a wonder that the story of Colonel and Mrs. Henry Rathbone is not etched like a fable into the American consciousness. Raised as step-siblings in the same household in the mid-19th century, weaned on American politics in Albany, N.Y., and in...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-89919-939-9
Mallon ( A Book of One's Own ), literary editor of GQ , here sandwiches together 12 uneven essays in pursuit of the quintessentially American experience. His wry tone frequently serves him well--the United Nations is ``endlessly verbose,'' the 1992...
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Thomas Mallon, Author W. W. Norton & Company $8.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-393-30848-8
Fifth-grader Gregory Noonan, obsessed with outer space, focuses on astronaut Scott Carpenter's 1962 triple orbit of the Earth in this audacious, exhilarating novel. (May)
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Thomas Mallon, Author . Pantheon $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42117-4
In his fiction, Mallon (Henry and Clara,
etc.) has looked at history's accidental tourists, ordinary citizens thrust by happenstance into the swirl of cataclysmic events. This time around, he turns a journalistic eye toward a central surviving...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-89919-938-2
Astronaut Scott Carpenter's triple orbit around the earth on May 24, 1962, is the launching point for this audacious novel. Its hero, fifth-grader Gregory Noonan, obsessed with outer space, plays hooky and hops a train to New York City's Grand...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Ticknor & Fields $18.45 (300p) ISBN 978-0-89919-393-9
Mallon, who examined diaries in A Book of One's Own , here probes the opposite end of the literary spectrum: plagiarism. Although ably researched and enthusiastic and clever in tone, the book has an uneasy mix of topics which may preclude its...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Ticknor & Fields $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-89919-420-2
With two nonfiction works under his belt (including the critically acclaimed A Book of One's Own) Mallon has tackled what one suspects is a highly autobiographical coming-of-age novel set at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in...
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Thomas Mallon, Author Picador USA $15 (358p) ISBN 978-0-312-13508-9
This novel is based on the lives of Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris, a couple who were sharing President Lincoln's box at the Ford Theater the evening he was assassinated. (Sept.)
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Thomas Mallon, Author Ruminator Books $15 (314p) ISBN 978-1-886913-02-8
Novelist Mallon's 1984 exploration of diaries through the ages, drawing on both the famous and the obscure, inaugurates a new series-the Hungry Mind Find-devoted to bringing back into print literary nonfiction titles. (Nov.)
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Thomas Mallon, Author . Pantheon $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-679-44426-8
This companion volume to prolific Mallon's 1984 study of diaries, A Book of One's Own
, surveys several epistolary subgenres, including friendship, advice, complaint, love, confession, war-zone dispatch and pleas from prison. A 25-year...
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Thomas Mallon, Author . Pantheon $25 (354p) ISBN 978-0-375-42348-2
McCarthy-era Washington, D.C., is as twisted and morally compromised as a noir Los Angeles in Mallon's latest, a wide-ranging examination of betrayal and clashing ideologies. The young ladies in the secretary pool are agog over dapper bureaucrat
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Thomas Mallon, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-42116-7
A new, gleeful exuberance infuses Mallon's latest novel, in which he turns his talent for fastidious historical detail (Dewey Defeats Truman
, etc.) to the elaboration of a comedy of errors set in Manhattan during the 1920s. Bandbox
is the name
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Thomas Mallon. Pantheon, $28.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-101-87105-8
In his fantastic latest, Mallon (Finale) recreates the political events of George W. Bush’s years as president—and their impact on Washington, D.C., and the world—so meticulously that they hardly seem the stuff of a fictional narrative. Spanning the
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Thomas Mallon. Knopf, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4819-7
Mallon’s sparkling latest (after Watergate) draws inspiration from real-life actor Dick Kallman’s career on Broadway and television and his 1980 murder. A pianist named Matt Liannetto, who first met Dick while working on the 1951 Broadway musical...
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