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Summary: Amazing prescience
Review: I gather that Puzo wrote this book long before 9/11. The narrative is spooky in that it parallels that event and the conspiracies that followed. The concern for loss of civil rights; the never ending central factor of the Israel-Palestine conflict; the bombing to rubble of a middle east capital city.
All of this, read in light of what followed, would speak to Puzo's grasp of international skulduggery, long before most of us anticipated the coming tragedies. On this basis, alone, it is well worth reading.
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Summary: THE PRESIDENTIAL CRISIS THAT WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES
Review: If you like novels in which the President of the United States is central to the plot this one's for you. Mario Puzo could always tell a good story, and this one is no exception. (By the way, this book dealt with an impeachment process LONG before Bill Clinton became president.)
Good summer reading. I hope you enjoy it.
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Summary: Typical Mario Puzo
Review: If you're a Mario Puzo fan, then this book will be enjoyable to you.It's an entertaining, good story. As with most of Puzo's books, it shows a different side of life than the one most of us are familiar with. I recommend it.
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Summary: Puzo without the mafia? And it's still a good read?
Review: In this novel Puzo steps out of his standard world of massive corruption (mafia), into another, politics. The book is fast moving and if you read the cover jacket it only tells about the first quarter of the book. There is much more. It is a sttory of a man who tries his best to be a decent man, but after a string of horrible events that ruin everything he has once held dear, he slowly makes the transition to "the dark side". With subtle change you watch the character of Francis Kennedy turn from a man of honor to a man of evil. Some of the elements of the book are completely unbelievable, but isn't that what fiction is for?
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Puzo once again showed his skills as an awesome character developer and as an author who doesn't put together a predictable ending. Read this book.
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