Banana Republican
Subtitle: from the Buchanan file
By: Eric Rauchway.
Contributors: Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780374298944
Subjects: Buchanan, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Central America -- History -- 1821-1951 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Depicted as braggart, brute, and bore in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan has gotten a bad rap and means to correct the record. That weak-kneed, simpering cousin of his wife's, with his prattling about some lost idealized American individualism and rectitude, was not only a fool and a liar, but worse: a failed bond salesman. But by 1924 Tom has bigger problems than the pathos of the summer of '22. First, there's Aunt Gertrude, who has assumed control of the Buchanan fortune. Second, what with Daisy getting jowly and the maids indiscreet, there's little tranquillity at home. Third, a revolution is brewing in Nicaragua that's threatening to ensnare the family investments. So when Tom is dispatched to maneuver among Nicaragua's international corporate intrigues, machine-gun-toting rival political parties, and competing American intelligence agencies, he spies his chance.