LandfallBy: Thomas Mallon Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush yearsamid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane KatrinaLandfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax. The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self