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THECELESTIAL BEDBy Irving WallaceSmashwords edition published at Smashwords by Crossroad PressCopyright 2012 / The Estate of IrvingWallaceCopy-edited by: Christine SteendamCover Design By: David DoddLICENSENOTESThis eBook is licensedfor your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold orgiven away to other people.
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His bestselling 1962 Cold War novel The Prize was madeinto a film in 1963, starring Paul Newman. The Man was madeinto a film in 1972 starring James Earl Jones. After an amazingcareer spanning decades, Irving Wallaced died on June 29, 1990. Heis survived by his children, Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky, bothbest-selling authors in their own right.
The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life.From beginning to end, 'The Man is a novel of swift and tremendous drama, as President Dilman attempts to uphold his oath in the face of international crises, domestic dissension, violence, scandal, and ferocious hostility. Push comes to shove in a breathtaking climax, played out in the full glare of publicity, when the Senate of the United States meets for the first time in one hundred years to impeach the President. Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios-Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books.
His first major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios.
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With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer.