Jack Gance is a man on the rise in American politics who takes the reader right inside the political arena, from the wards of Chicago to the Executive Office Building in Washington.
... JACKGANCE, 1989 Jack Gance charts the career of the first-person narrator, a U.S. senator from Illinois, looking back on his life and explaining how he achieved his position and what he has learned in the process. Clearly, Jack thinks ...
Robert A. Parker. WARD JUST Jack Gance (1989) This is an ambitious novel that doesn't quite come off. It is too episodic as it portrays the world of politics. It is most effective when its hero Jack Gance is young and naïve, and ...
... Jack Gance . Houghton Mifflin , 1989. Ivy Books , 1990. ( 0-8041- 0571-5 ) Pb $ 4.95 . « Time : 1941 - mid 1960s . Political life in Chicago and Washington , D.C. , are well presented in this novel of a man who is involved in Chicago ...
... Jack Gance and The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert, a collection of short stories. A Man for All Seasons is another exemplar of a book that ought to be read as part of trying to understand how things work or ought to work or can work in ...
Jack Gance : American hero redefined By DOUGLAS BALZ Ward Just . Jack Gance . Boston : Hough- ton Mifflin , 1989. Pp . 279. $ 17.95 ( cloth ) . N ot so many years ago , when America was still king of the hill and anything seemed ...
... Jack Gance, Ward Just Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill, Tip O'Neill One Last Shot: The Story of Michael Jordan's Comeback, Mitchell Krugel Personal History, Katharine Graham Primary Colors, Joe ...
... Jack Gance by Ward Just The Wanting of Levine by Michael Halberstam The People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor The Shad Treatment by Garrett Epps The Woody by Peter Lefcourt The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick ...
... Jack Gance, Ward Just Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill, Tip O'Neill One Last Shot: The Story of Michael Jordan's Comeback, Mitchell Krugel Personal History, Katharine Graham Primary Colors, Joe ...