Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 400 pages | ISBN 9780141188997 | 22 Feb 2007 | Penguin Classic
When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.