Thomas Mallon: Landfall

Oh, that wacky Dubya! Before our country soothed itself with an Obama (dude, come back!) and then incurred the inhuman stain of a Trump (we don't care where that door hits you, actually), there was some almost-homegrown Texan feller doing his Cheney-led best, right? Well, we reckon the bestselling author might put it more subtly than that, yes – at BookPeople tonight.