Unless Peter Sanford, younger son of Blaise Sanford, newspaper-owning, politician-controlling millionaire, can break him. failed with his Supreme Court bill, to some fifteen years later, and it deals primarily with the rise of the publicly opportunistic, privately promiscuous Clay Overbury, from administrative assistant of an entrenched conservative (Senator Burden Day) to Representative, and on. The view is long rather than large-extending from 1937, the moment when F.D.R. Vidal is an experienced novelist (although with the exception of Julian never a widely successful one) and politician it is surprising that he should appear to be so seemingly uninterested in what he is writing here-a fairly well accessorized if rather listless novel about that small capital compound.
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