The X President: A Novel - Softcover

Baruth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553802941 ISBN 13: 9780553802948

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

In 2055, with America caught up in a catastrophic world war that it is losing badly, Sal Hayden, the official biographer of a former president known as BC, a charismatic and controversial politician now 109 years old, confronts a profound moral dilemma when she is asked to rewrite history in order to give the U.S. a chance to change the tide of the war, in a novel of speculative fiction. Original.

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About the Author

Philip Baruth is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio. His previous works include The Dream of the White Village and The Millennium Shows.

From the Inside Flap

A masterful blend of political satire and edgy social commentary, here is a wildly entertaining trip through recent American history and into the impending future. An incisive look at how we love and hate our political leaders, and how they love and hate us back, The X President touches the very heart of what it means to be president and what a president means to America.

It is the year 2055 and America is entangled in a devastating world war and losing badly. As the threat of homeland invasion grows stronger, the United States is desperate to change the tide, anyway it can.

Enter Sal Hayden, official biographer of a former president known as BC, now 109 years old and all but forgotten. Charismatic, controversial, and always willing to feel another person s pain, BC s political career, like his personal life, is marked by both uncanny triumphs and key blunders some of which may have doomed the U.S. to defeat. Recording his story has not always been easy, but it has been straightforward. That is, until the day Sal is asked to rewrite it and not just on the page. For Sal will be granted a biographer s most fantastic dream, one that will thrust her into the greatest moral dilemma of her life and the world s most daring, dangerous, and spectacular spin job. . . .

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553802941
• ISBN 13: 9780553802948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 369