In case you haven't figured it out by now, this novel is a fictional account of the first black President. The first half of this review was written prior to Barack Obama's election to the highest office in the land. Now that Barack Obama is running for President this compelling novel has fondly been brought back to mind. With the book finally in my possession would it end up being worth my effort to obtain it? Fortunately it lived up to the hype. Obtaining a copy proved to be a challenge in itself (this must have been before I was internet savvy), but after searching in a number of bookstores and libraries I finally found one in The Strand. Now that Barack Obama is running for President this compelling no I decided to read this book after learning of it when Colin Powell was thinking about running for President. I decided to read this book after learning of it when Colin Powell was thinking about running for President. Push comes to shove in a breathtaking climax, played out in the full glare of publicity, when the Senate of the United States meets for the first time in one hundred years to impeach the President.more It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life.įrom beginning to end, The Man is a novel of swift and tremendous drama, as President Dilman attempts to uphold his oath in the face of international crises, domestic dissension, violence, scandal, and ferocious hostility. This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost The time is 1964.

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