Thomas Mallon: Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years

(Those with names in quotation marks are entirely fictional.)

Antony Acland: British ambassador to the United States

Leonore (“Lee”) Annenberg: first chief of protocol of the United States under President Reagan; wife of Walter Annenberg

Walter Annenberg: publisher and philanthropist; former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom

Marion S. Barry, Jr.: mayor of the District of Columbia

Shirley Temple Black: child film star and diplomat; chief of protocol of the United States under President Ford

Betsy Bloomingdale: widow of businessman Alfred Bloomingdale and friend of Nancy Reagan

Lindy Boggs: U.S. congresswoman (D-LA)

J. Carter Brown III: director of the National Gallery of Art

Patrick J. Buchanan: White House communications director

Pat Buckley: New York socialite and wife of William F. Buckley, Jr.

William F. Buckley, Jr.: conservative columnist and editor of National Review

George H. W. Bush: vice president of the United States

“Nicholas Carrollton”: staff assistant, Republican National Committee

Jimmy Carter: thirty-ninth president of the United States

Rosalynn Carter: former first lady of the United States

Carl “Spitz” Channell: president, National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty

Winston Churchill: Conservative member of Parliament; son of Pamela Harriman

“Peter Cox”: former Republican state senator from Michigan; political consultant and contributor

Elaine Crispen: press secretary to Nancy Reagan

Nicholas Daniloff: correspondent for U.S. News & World Report

Bette Davis: film actress; performed with Ronald Reagan in Dark Victory

Michael Deaver: lobbyist; former White House deputy chief of staff

Terry Dolan: cofounder and chairman, National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC)

Bob Dole: U.S. senator (R-KS) and Senate majority leader

“James Dugan”: contributor to the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: fourth president of Iceland

Betty Ford: former first lady of the United States

Gerald R. Ford: thirty-eighth president of the United States

Eva Gabor: actress and television personality; businesswoman

Ellen Garwood: contributor to the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty

Lillian Gish: film actress

Mikhail Gorbachev: general secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.

Raisa Gorbachev: first lady of the U.S.S.R.

Al Gore: U.S. senator (D-TN)

Tipper Gore: wife of Al Gore; cofounder, Parents Music Resource Center

Bob Graham: governor of Florida; Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate

Cary Grant: film star

Merv Griffin: television host and show-business entrepreneur

“Neal Grover”: management analyst, National Security Council

Fawn Hall: secretary to Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North

Marvin Hamlisch: American composer and orchestra conductor

W. Averell Harriman: former governor of New York and ambassador to the U.S.S.R.

Pamela Harriman: founder and chairman of Democrats for the 80s (“PamPAC”); wife and widow of Averell Harriman

Kitty Carlisle Hart: actress; television personality; chair of the New York State Council on the Arts

Paula Hawkins: U.S. senator (R-FL)

“Jane Hazard”: Michigan delegate to the 1976 and 1996 Republican national conventions

John W. Hinckley, Jr.: failed assassin and mental patient

Christopher Hitchens: journalist

Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings: U.S. senator (D-SC)

Rita “Peatsy” Hollings: wife of Ernest Hollings

Bob Hope: entertainer

Janet Howard: assistant to Pamela Harriman; executive director, Democrats for the 80s

John Hutton: White House physician

Thomas Victor Jones: chief executive officer of Northrop Corporation

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick: former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

Henry A. Kissinger: U.S. secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford

“Sofya Kornilov”: Soviet human-rights activist and political prisoner

Jim Kuhn: executive assistant to President Reagan

“Anders Little”: deputy director, Defense Programs and Arms Control Division, National Security Council

“Anne Macmurray”: activist against nuclear weapons; ex-wife of Peter Cox

Edwin Meese: attorney general of the United States

Walter F. Mondale: former vice president of the United States

Edmund Morris: authorized biographer of Ronald Reagan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan: U.S. senator (D-NY)

Paul Nitze: special advisor to the president and secretary of state on arms control matters

Pat Nixon: former first lady of the United States

Richard M. Nixon: thirty-seventh president of the United States

Oliver L. North: lieutenant colonel, U.S. Marines; deputy director for political-military affairs, National Security Council

Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr.: speaker of the House of Representatives

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: former first lady of the United States

John M. Poindexter: vice admiral, U.S. Navy; national security advisor

“Kelly Proctor”: staff assistant to Pamela Harriman at Democrats for the 80s

Joan Quigley: astrologer to Nancy Reagan

Irina Ratushinskaya: Soviet poet and dissident

Doria Reagan: daughter-in-law of the president

Maureen Reagan: daughter of the president

Nancy Reagan: first lady of the United States

Ron Reagan: son of the president

Ronald Reagan: fortieth president of the United States

Donald T. Regan: chief of staff to the president of the United States

Dennis Revell: son-in-law of the president

Rozanne Ridgway: special assistant to the secretary of state for negotiations

Nelson A. Rockefeller: forty-first vice president of the United States

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: historian; former special assistant to President Kennedy

Frank Sesno: CNN correspondent

Eduard Shevardnadze: minister of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union

George P. Shultz: U.S. secretary of state

Ann Sothern: film and television actress

Larry Speakes: deputy press secretary to the president

Robert Strauss: attorney; former chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Maurice Tempelsman: businessman; companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Margaret Thatcher: prime minister of the United Kingdom

Sarah Vaughan: jazz singer

John Warner: U.S. senator (R-VA)

Charles Wick: director, United States Information Agency