bbbbbbbbbbbbFrom tbbbhe bestselling, award-winning author of iThe Year of Magical Thinkingi and biLet Me Tell You What I Meanibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbi--iabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb bgorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life.b pMoving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, iDemocracy iis a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase.bbrbbrInez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam. pAs conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the termin