Buchanan DyingBy: John Updike To the list of John Updikes well intentioned protagonistsRabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bechadd James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (18571861). In what the author calls a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play, Buchanans political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. This definitive edition includes a