![]() ![]() ![]() It's the usual, closed third-person business, but it's not being filtered through any other character it's sort of being perceived from the inside out. ![]() At that point, you are seeing things from his point of view. The only time the book goes into Reagan's point of view is in that spooky epilogue. Did you ever try to write the book from Reagan's point of view? Ronald Reagan is at the heart of Finale, but, like Edmund Morris and many others, you don't give us Reagan himself as much as you circle around him with other characters. His latest, Finale, is a fascinating look at Ronald Reagan’s second presidential term and its aftermath.ĭuring a wide-ranging phone conversation a few weeks ago, Mallon spoke about how he tried to approach the famously impenetrable Reagan, the importance of Merv Griffin and Christopher Hitchens to the new book, and why Gore Vidal remains the “maestro” of historical fiction. ![]() An accomplished editor and writer of nonfiction, he’s best known for his array of historical novels covering the Lincoln assassination ( Henry and Clara), politics in the late 1940s and 50s ( Dewey Defeats Truman), and the world of Richard Nixon ( Watergate). If journalists write history’s first draft, Thomas Mallon gives us a well-considered second look. ![]()
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