White House Mess - Hardcover

Buckley, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394549406 ISBN 13: 9780394549408

Publisher: Knopf, 1986

Synopsis

An account of the 1989-1992 presidency of the bumbling and inept Thomas Nelson Tucker, as told by Deputy Chief of Staff and former accountant Herbert Wadlough

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Buckley is an American novelist and political satirist known for writing Supreme Courtship, Boomsday, and Thank You for Smoking. He is editor at large of ForbesLife magazine, and was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. Buckley lives on the Acela train between Washington, DC, and New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

With a dotty, pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor's Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Unfortunately, he uses his best shot first and the rest of the book rarely equals the wit that energizes the hilarious opening. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley (author of Steaming in Bamboola, son of William F. Buckley) recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant's eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President's faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises, including restoration of ties with Castro andin one of the novel's smarter sectionsa Marxist coup in Bermuda. Buckley, a onetime speechwriter for George Bush, obviously knows Washington's foibles and follies, but the zest of the book's early promise is smothered by an otherwise bland performance. Literary Guild alternate. (March 24p
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0394549406
• ISBN 13: 9780394549408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224