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Title:

Buchanan Dying
 

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Genres:

Theatrical
Politics

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1974-00-00 Alfred A. Knopf  

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Blurb: 
To the list of John Updike"s well-intentioned protagonists -- Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech -- add James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan, on his death bed, relives his political and private lives. A wide-ranging afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America"s lesser known and least appreciated leaders.