![]() ![]() When Bill’s President Duncan writes letters to relatives of US troops killed in war, we are tinglingly aware that one of the authors has actually done this. (Revelation of HRC’s use of a private email server for state department business dogged her 2016 run.)īut the huge appeal of these Washington super-insider novels is the promise of unimpeachable research. Secretary Adams is more human, warm and amusing than even Rodham Clinton’s admirers have often found her to be, although the side of the real politician that can seem reluctant to admit any wrong may be glimpsed in scenes justifying the use of non-official communications channels. Expectedly, but effectively, the book targets Washington misogyny: when Ellen jets in from another marathon diplomatic trip, political enemies and news pundits of both sexes sneer at her plane-hair and creased pantsuit. Prison warders’ belts contain fewer clanking keys.Īll the antagonists are male, reasonably reflecting both America’s political history and Rodham Clinton’s own. British readers may also be struck that Downing Street, on Zoom calls, is represented by “Prime Minister Bellington, his hair askew as always”, who is prone to “entitlement and random Latin phrases”. So the novel can reasonably be read as settling scores with both the man who beat her – Dunn is not far short of an elected Hannibal Lecter – and the man who then bested him. Hard Choices, Rodham Clinton’s 2014 memoir, is tough on then vice-president Joe Biden. The crazed, dangerous Dunn is followed into office by a Democrat, Doug Williams, who Ellen considers “rude” and a “fool”. In Rodham Clinton and Penny’s efficiently suspenseful scenario, Dunn’s dumbness has increased the possibility of terrorist groups buying or stealing nuclear weapons and using them against the US. The worst thing done by Dunn is to have “pulled out of a nuclear accord with Iran”, as Trump did. The US has recently been ruled by “delusional” Republican President Eric Dunn (his first name shared with one of Donald Trump’s sons), who was nicknamed “President Dumb” while running an administration of “near-criminal incompetence” that became “increasingly deranged”. In State of Terror, such parallels are further encouraged by the America presented. Photograph: APĮven so, it is almost impossible not to superimpose the respective Clinton. ![]()
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