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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Echo House about Washington, Behl, Senator with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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conversations.value: As a foreign correspondent and writer for the Washington Post, Ward the author knows Washington. And what he knows he's put into his latest political novel, Echo House , the story of three generations of a powerful Washington family. The book's title refers to the Behl family mansion, a historic landmark that has belonged to the Behls since the Wilson administration. Constance Behl, matriarch of the family, buys the house when it seems her husband, Senator Adolph Behl, is a sure bet for the vice presidential slot on his party's ticket. The political jockeying that surrounds this nomination and Senator Behl's mortifying disappointment are dealt with in the first 20 pages, leaving the rest of the book to chronicle the fortunes of the senator's son, Axel, and grandson, Alec.