Here, Faulks turns his focus from war to love, while maintaining his keen eye for history, well-dawn characters, and the emotional force of the narrative. Capturing the kinetic energy of the United States as it shifted from the stability of the Euisenhower years to the cut-throat competition of the Nixon/Kennedy campaign, Faulks pins dows the anticpation and the emotional turbulence of a nation on the brink of losing its innocence.