Who Goes There

A year before "Lewinsky" became a household name, Leon Rooke was at work on this novel about an aging right-wing southern senator's shenanigans with interns; fraudulent Vietnam War heroes; and the real players in the Washington power playpen: the doorman at the Watergate, the local mafia don and his floozies, and the no-neck "spin-doctors" who "clean up" after the celebrities.