Vidal's most highly regarded and trenchant play naturally deals with politics. It's an election year, and President Hockstader cannot run for re-election. He's also dying, so he has an eye toward history and selecting his successor. Will it be William Russell, an honest man of high moral values and great intellect or Senator Cantwell, a gamesman who knows what it takes to get what he wants. Will Cantwell use potentially damaging and true material to ruin Russell? Will Russell retaliate by leaking potentially damaging but untrue material about Cantwell ? And who will the dying president endorse: the man he trusts, or the man he thinks can win the election?
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