A god in ruins
Subtitle: a novel
By: Leon Uris.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Presidential candidates -- Fiction.; Presidents -- Election -- Fiction.; Political campaigns -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the 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, the last great liberal of the Rocky Mountains, 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 a half century that even he does not know....