A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual due...
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Nov 05, 2011
Susan
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I agree Ward Just is a gifted writer. Newsweek ranks him just below Edith Wharton and Henry James in his social commentary.
“Jack Gance,” published in 1989, is the second of Just’s novels with significant portions of the story set in and around Chicago from the 1940s to the 1980s, what Just calls his “Illinois cycle.” However, instead of focusing on journalism as in “A Family Trust,” this story focuses on Chicago’s Machine Politics peppered with minor Mafia influences in Jack Gance’s p More...
“Jack Gance,” published in 1989, is the second of Just’s novels with significant portions of the story set in and around Chicago from the 1940s to the 1980s, what Just calls his “Illinois cycle.” However, instead of focusing on journalism as in “A Family Trust,” this story focuses on Chicago’s Machine Politics peppered with minor Mafia influences in Jack Gance’s p More...
Feb 10, 2010
Ann
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Great book involving Chicago and DC politics, family dynamics and personal choices.
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