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The Man (Wallace novel)
''The Man'' is a 1964 novel by Irving Wallace that speculatively explores the socio-political consequences in U.S. society when a Black man becomes President of the United States. The novel's title derives from the contemporary — fifties, sixties, seventies — American slang English, "The Man".
==Plot introduction==
As a novel, ''The Man'' — written before the 25th Amendment to the national Constitution — begins, the Vice-Presidency is vacant, because of the incumbent's death. Then, while overseas in Germany, the President and the Speaker of the House suffer a freak accident; the President is killed, the Speaker of the House later dies in surgery. The Presidency then devolves onto Douglass Dilman, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, a black man earlier elected to ''that'' office in deference to racial tokenism.
At the time of writing, more than four decades before the election of Barack Obama, Wallace clearly could not conceive of a Black person actually contesting the elections and winning the Presidency; he assumed that it could only happen through a freak combination of completely unforeseen circumstances. And at the end of the book the protagonist - though having credibly dealt with considerable problems during his Presidency and gained some popularity - does not consider running for election.
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