Democracy Author:Joan Didion At the center of the novel is Inez Christian Victor, wife of a United States Senator who wants to be President of the United State, mother o children adrift in the persistent ebb of the '60s; the daughter of a privilege she no longer accepts, a woman whose life is held together by a liaison over a period of twenty years with a man named Jack... more » Lovett, who moves in the shadow world of intelligence and destabilization.« less