While at Harvard, she was an editor for Harvard Lampoon. The Capitol Hill in Fiction bibliography lists more novels about the Senate, House, and Capitol Hill.Gore was raised in Washington, D.C., graduated from National Cathedral School in 1995 and from Harvard University in 1999.
Thomas Mallon has also written about the Senate in some of his other historical novels his most recent work, Fellow Travelers, focuses on the McCarthy era. Set in 1877, the year the moons of Mars were discovered, the novel includes other real-life figures as Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate. Naval Observatory, and Hugh Allison, an astronomer. He seems unlikely to appear in a romantic novel but does just that in this story of Cynthia May, a Civil War widow who lands a job at the U.S.
Senate from 1867 to 1881, controlled a vast patronage machine and was contemptuous of efforts at civil service reform. Roscoe Conkling, who represented New York in the U.S. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. Tom’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Delia -wife of the two-term liberal Senator Tom Naughton-is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Gore revisits many of these characters in a sequel, Sammy's House. But the path to achieving these wishes is not smooth as Sammy wrestles with political complications, romantic entanglements, and her own accident-prone nature. Quirky and idealistic, Sammy wants her boss to be elected and hopes to find true love. Samantha "Sammy" Joyce is a twenty-six-year-old health-care analyst for an Ohio senator running for vice president. background to produce a lighthearted tale of romance and public policy. senators, combined experience gained as a television comedy writer with her D.C. Kristin Gore, the daughter and granddaughter of U.S.
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