Synopses & Reviews
A Man You Could Love follows the lives of Gabe Bontempo, a savvy political strategist, and Mick Whelan, a young, idealistic candidate from Oregon. Together they weather decades of political upheaval from the civil rights and Vietnam era into the 1990s, while facing personal crises of their own. This ambitious, absorbing first novel offers a fresh look at Washington politics, the thrills and surprises of the campaign trail, and the ongoing complexities of war, as well as a touching tribute to friendship and families the ones you are born into and those you find along the way.
Synopsis
From the forests of the Pacific Northwest to the power corridors of Washington, D.C., this powerful novel stretches across the tumult of the 1960s to the disputed 2000 presidential election as it chronicles the life of a crusading politician and, in the process, the coming of age and loss of innocence of a generation.
About the Author
John Callahan is the Morgan S. Odell professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. As literary executor for Ralph Ellison, he edited the manuscripts of Ellison's unfinished second novel into Juneteenth to widespread critical praise and also edited Ellison's Collected Essays and Flying Home and Other Stories. Callahan is known nationally for his work in American and African American literature and has also been active politically, running for U.S. Congress and as Senator Eugene McCarthy's vice presidential candidate in Oregon. A Man You Could Love is his first novel.