{"product_id":"buchanan-dying-a-play-0812984900-used","title":"Buchanan Dying: A Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0812984900\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Updike, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the list of John Updikes well-intentioned protagonists-Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech-add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857-1861). In what the author calls a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play, Buchanans political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. This definitive edition includes a Foreword by Updike, discussing early productions of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and its kinship to his later novel Memories of the Ford Administration. A wide-ranging Afterword fleshes out this dramatic portrait of one of Americas lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68219551613216,"sku":"USED0812984900","price":16.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61lDLAHyvPL_05588419-9136-4da9-9121-bc779492ea05.jpg?v=1794302365","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/buchanan-dying-a-play-0812984900-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}