Uris takes on a subject bigger than the Irish (Trinity, 1976, and
Redemption, 1995), the Jews (Exodus, 1958, and Mitla Pass, 1988),
or the Arabs (The Haj, 1984). This time, it's Man himself, of whom
Emerson says, "Man is a god in ruins . . . Infancy is the perpetual
Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with
them to return to paradise." The Messiah here, a Jewish orphan
adopted and raised by a Catholic family, is the great liberal Quinn
Patrick O'Connell, now at 60 governor of Colorado and Democratic
candidate for president. Sloganeering about the nation's Moral
Imperative, O'Connell has grand plans for the rehabilitation of
ruined mankind through racial harmony. But he also has problems,
including vile barbs from the incumbent president and rival
messiah, black-hearted Thornton Tomtree. The time-span covers the
last week before the election in 2008, with long flashbacks to WWII
and forward. Will Quinn follow in the footsteps of JFK as our
second Catholic president? And what is the terrible scandal in his
past that may undermine his hopes? If elected, can he rise above
riots and bomb-throwing, the blows from armed zealots and rigid
fundamentalists whose hatreds divide the nation? Uris himself
offers a rather woozy moral message bordering on bombast in a novel
that may widen his audience and boost sales, but hardly matches the
author's messianic ambitions. (Kirkus Reviews)
Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 Presidential campaign, 'A God in Ruins' is the unforgettable story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. In an era morally unmoored, rife with armed separatists and fundamentalist zealotry, Quinn emerges as America's hope to reclaim its great past and its promises of the future. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political ambitions and threaten his life – a secret buried for over half a century that even he does not know…
Master storyteller and international bestselling author of Redemption, Trinity and Exodus, Leon Uris once again brilliantly interweaves historical fact with gripping fiction in this powerful novel of politics, family, intrigue, love and the passions that rule human lives.
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