Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon is the author of eight novels, including Watergate, Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Fellow Travelers, and seven works of nonfiction. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Dewey Defeats Truman
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political
978-0-345-80556-0 (0-345-80556-9)
April 23, 2013 | $19.00
Written by Thomas Mallon
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political
978-0-345-80556-0 (0-345-80556-9)
April 23, 2013 | $19.00
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A masterful retelling of a legend and famous headline of modern American history—Harry Truman’s upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
Set in Dewey’s hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors the national election contest. As the voters...
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Dewey Defeats Truman
eBook | 364 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political
978-0-345-80557-7 (0-345-80557-7)
April 23, 2013 | $12.99
From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past.
Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 364 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political
978-0-345-80557-7 (0-345-80557-7)
April 23, 2013 | $12.99
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From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past.
Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend...
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trade paperback.
Henry and Clara
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-80476-1 (0-345-80476-7)
April 23, 2013 | $19.00
On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history.
In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter...
Written by Thomas Mallon
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-80476-1 (0-345-80476-7)
April 23, 2013 | $19.00
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On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history.
In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter...
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eBook.
Henry and Clara
eBook | 358 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-80475-4 (0-345-80475-9)
April 23, 2013 | $9.99
On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history.
In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 358 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-80475-4 (0-345-80475-9)
April 23, 2013 | $9.99
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On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history.
In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Watergate
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-47465-0 (0-307-47465-8)
January 8, 2013 | $18.95
Written by Thomas Mallon
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-47465-0 (0-307-47465-8)
January 8, 2013 | $18.95
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A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2012
A 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the...
In Fact
eBook | 368 pages | Pantheon | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-0-307-82430-1 (0-307-82430-6)
August 22, 2012 | $14.99
From the acclaimed novelist (Henry and Clara, Two Moons), essayist (A Book of One's Own), and critic (1998 National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing)—an engaging new collection of essays.
In Fact gathers the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two years—essays that appeared in his GQ...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 368 pages | Pantheon | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - American
978-0-307-82430-1 (0-307-82430-6)
August 22, 2012 | $14.99
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From the acclaimed novelist (Henry and Clara, Two Moons), essayist (A Book of One's Own), and critic (1998 National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing)—an engaging new collection of essays.
In Fact gathers the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two years—essays that appeared in his GQ...
Bandbox
eBook | 320 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Humorous; Music - Jazz
978-0-307-82431-8 (0-307-82431-4)
August 8, 2012 | $15.99
From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.
Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe&rdquo...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 320 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Humorous; Music - Jazz
978-0-307-82431-8 (0-307-82431-4)
August 8, 2012 | $15.99
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From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.
Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe&rdquo...
Watergate
Hardcover | 448 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37872-9 (0-307-37872-1)
February 21, 2012 | $31.95
Written by Thomas Mallon
Hardcover | 448 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37872-9 (0-307-37872-1)
February 21, 2012 | $31.95
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From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work...
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Watergate
eBook | 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-90708-0 (0-307-90708-2)
February 21, 2012 | $12.99
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Political; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-90708-0 (0-307-90708-2)
February 21, 2012 | $12.99
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From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work...
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Yours Ever
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-47741-5 (0-307-47741-X)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.
Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor...
Written by Thomas Mallon
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-47741-5 (0-307-47741-X)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
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A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.
Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor...
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Yours Ever
eBook | 360 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-37864-4 (0-307-37864-0)
November 10, 2009 | $12.99
A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.
Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 360 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-37864-4 (0-307-37864-0)
November 10, 2009 | $12.99
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A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.
Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Fellow Travelers
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-38890-2 (0-307-38890-5)
May 6, 2008 | $16.95
It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads...
Written by Thomas Mallon
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-38890-2 (0-307-38890-5)
May 6, 2008 | $16.95
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It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads...
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eBook.
Fellow Travelers
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Gay; Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-42516-5 (0-375-42516-0)
April 24, 2007 | $12.99
It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Gay; Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-42516-5 (0-375-42516-0)
April 24, 2007 | $12.99
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It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads...
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trade paperback.
Mrs. Paine's Garage
eBook | 224 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-375-42192-1 (0-375-42192-0)
May 7, 2002 | $16.99
Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds’ lives that she eventually became...
Written by Thomas Mallon
eBook | 224 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-375-42192-1 (0-375-42192-0)
May 7, 2002 | $16.99
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Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds’ lives that she eventually became...
