American Hero - Softcover
Lee Atwater is on his deathbed. He isn't thinking death. He's thinking king-making. And he's thinking that it wasn't enough to have raised up the king...now he has to protect him - even from beyond the grave. It means entrusting his last - his greatest - reelection scam to Jim Baker, and when he hands it over, he wraps it in a warning: "Don't show it to Georgie, now. Don't even look, now. Wait until you're in trouble."
Think of Lot's wife. Think of Orpheus. Think of Pandora. Think of Baker opening Atwater's memo the minute he steps out of the hospital room. And think of him reading a plan so mad, so potentially destructive, and so utterly logical (in a particularly Atwateresquely cynical kind of way) that it just might work....
Not since Catch-22 has there been a novel so brutal in its satire, so lethal in its aim, and so powerfully compelling and caustic in its effect.
Think of Lot's wife. Think of Orpheus. Think of Pandora. Think of Baker opening Atwater's memo the minute he steps out of the hospital room. And think of him reading a plan so mad, so potentially destructive, and so utterly logical (in a particularly Atwateresquely cynical kind of way) that it just might work....
Not since Catch-22 has there been a novel so brutal in its satire, so lethal in its aim, and so powerfully compelling and caustic in its effect.
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About the Author:
Larry Beinhart is the Edgar Award-winning author of No One Rides for Free, You Get What You Pay For, and Foreign Exchange.
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"ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Don't be fooled into thinking AMERICAN HERO is merely a cunning satire. It could, in fact, be a brilliantly disguised documentary. Did George Bush really hire a movie director to stage the Gulf War? And, if so, how did Larry Beinhart get the incredible story? Okay, so he's no Woodward or Bernstein. But he's a damn sight funnier."
--Carl Hiaasen
There once was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had the most brilliant, insane, frightening, and doable idea ever concocted to assure that his man would retain th
Read by Peter Onorati
"ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Don't be fooled into thinking AMERICAN HERO is merely a cunning satire. It could, in fact, be a brilliantly disguised documentary. Did George Bush really hire a movie director to stage the Gulf War? And, if so, how did Larry Beinhart get the incredible story? Okay, so he's no Woodward or Bernstein. But he's a damn sight funnier."
--Carl Hiaasen
There once was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had the most brilliant, insane, frightening, and doable idea ever concocted to assure that his man would retain th
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- ISBN 10 0345912462
- ISBN 13 9780345912466
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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