Book # 000424 Publisher Random House, Incorporated Place New York, NY, U.S.A. Year 1987 Book Condition Fine Jacket Condition Fine Binding Pictorial Cover
Price: $16.00
Description First Edition. In the year of his eightieth birthday, and the two-hundredth anniversary of our Constitution, James A. Michener contributes a short novel of great impact. Major Norman Starr, attached to the National Security Council, is told that he will shortly be called before a congressional committee. Through a tense, reflective weekend, the officer talks over the situation with his wife and a street-wise Washington lawyer -- and begins to think back to the long line of Americans from whom he is descended. One was a Supreme Court justice, another figured importantly in the unofficial nightly debates about drafting a new document to unify and help guide the affairs of the young United States, another was an unlikely but courageous and effective suffragist. One by one, these and others parade through the officer's mind -- the soldier, the Roosevelt-hater, the slave-owner.. "Legacy" is a novel as timely as today and as timeless as truth and justice -- its biographical portraits an eloquent lesson in American history.
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