{"product_id":"fellow-travelers-9780307388902","title":"Fellow Travelers","description":"\u003cb\u003eNOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS - A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.--a world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy--and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. - From the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWatergate \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUp With the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Crisp, buoyant prose.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on \"sexual subversives\" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS MALLON is the author of eleven novels, including \u003ci\u003eHenry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWatergate, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLandfall.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. In 2011 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. He has been the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575131640082,"sku":"9780307388902","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34fe6612-d50f-49c2-a3a2-08896c6bb768.jpg?v=1731978030","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fellow-travelers-9780307388902","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}