Soon, however, he turned to a more lucrative job as a Hollywood screenwriter. Seuss - and continued to write for magazines. In World War II Wallace served in the Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel - more popularly known as Dr. Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.
He grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he attended Kenosha Central High School. The family was Jewish and originally from Russia, and he was named after his maternal grandfather, a bookkeeper and Talmudic scholar of Narewka. It became the fifth-highest selling novel of the year.Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois to Bessie Liss and Alexander Wallace (an Americanized version of the original family name of Wallechinsky). The Man was a major commercial success: it spent 38 weeks (peaking at #2) on the New York Times best seller list. The impeachment trial of President Douglass Dilman closely parallels that of President Andrew Johnson (at the time the only Presidential impeachment proceedings to reach the articles stage, before Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump in 20). At the end of the book, the protagonist-though having credibly dealt with considerable problems during his Presidency and gained some popularity-does not consider running for re-election.Īllusions and references to current history, geography, and science One of his children, who is " passing" for white, is targeted and harassed.
Later, he is impeached on false charges for firing the United States Secretary of State. Dilman's presidency is challenged by white racists, black political activists, and an attempted assassination. The Presidency then devolves onto Douglass Dilman, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, a black man earlier elected to that office in deference to his race. While overseas in Germany, the President and the Speaker of the House are in a freak accident the President is killed, the Speaker of the House later dies in surgery. It depicts a political situation in which the office of Vice Presidency is vacant due to the incumbent's death. The Man was written before the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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