My Cold War

"John Delano is in trouble. A professor of Cold War Studies at a small New England college, he traffics in what others call "History McNuggets"--Gimmicky, easily digestible glimpses of our collective past. But as he struggles with his magnum opus - a major new book on the "surfaces" of the Cold War era - Delano's life begins to fall apart. The death of his troubled father, the unraveling of his marriage, and his estrangement from his younger brother conspire to set him on a collision course with his own past. In a series of dazzingly rendered and escalating encounters, he revisits the…