Big Government
Format: Glassbook Format
Ev Ehrlich spent four years in the White House Mess as Bill Clinton's Undersecretary of Commerce. Now, in the funniest literary debut since Christopher Buckley's, Ehrlich lets us know that everything we suspected about our government is true--and we don't even know the half of it. When the president--hugely popular but no longer having any fun--steps down to accept a better offer, he throws the field wide open, kicking off a frantic election year from top to bottom. The vice president is sinking fast, bunkered down, and desperate for more effective dirty tricks. Senators and congressmen scramble to put together new coalitions or reinvent the old ones with ever-slicker gimmicks. Special interests everywhere watch and wait to see which way to jump. Out of this electoral whirlwind emerge Lenny Keeler, a small-town hero who finds prominence thrust upon him while working for Congressman Ezra T. Wheezle . . . Dickie Vanderhaltz, an unemployed geology professor who fails upward far enough to become a major third-party candidate . . . Col. Cody Clark, the evangelical TV investment advisor out to turn a quick profit . . . Laslo Schang, publisher of Modern Weapons magazine, who arrives in Washington bearing a potentially explosive mailing list of survivalists, home-schoolers, and libertarians . . . and Senior Younger, Jr., the 114-year-old congressman who just might be the sharpest tack in the box. With clear-eyed insight and mercy toward none, Ehrlich offers up a burlesque of American politics that is as disturbing as it is entertaining. In the end, Big Government reminds us that we keep coming back, not just because politics is the only game in town, but because there's still a reason to care.
$9.99 (USD)
Big Government
Format: Microsoft Desktop Reader
Ev Ehrlich spent four years in the White House Mess as Bill Clinton's Undersecretary of Commerce. Now, in the funniest literary debut since Christopher Buckley's, Ehrlich lets us know that everything we suspected about our government is true--and we don't even know the half of it. When the president--hugely popular but no longer having any fun--steps down to accept a better offer, he throws the field wide open, kicking off a frantic election year from top to bottom. The vice president is sinking fast, bunkered down, and desperate for more effective dirty tricks. Senators and congressmen scramble to put together new coalitions or reinvent the old ones with ever-slicker gimmicks. Special interests everywhere watch and wait to see which way to jump. Out of this electoral whirlwind emerge Lenny Keeler, a small-town hero who finds prominence thrust upon him while working for Congressman Ezra T. Wheezle . . . Dickie Vanderhaltz, an unemployed geology professor who fails upward far enough to become a major third-party candidate . . . Col. Cody Clark, the evangelical TV investment advisor out to turn a quick profit . . . Laslo Schang, publisher of Modern Weapons magazine, who arrives in Washington bearing a potentially explosive mailing list of survivalists, home-schoolers, and libertarians . . . and Senior Younger, Jr., the 114-year-old congressman who just might be the sharpest tack in the box. With clear-eyed insight and mercy toward none, Ehrlich offers up a burlesque of American politics that is as disturbing as it is entertaining. In the end, Big Government reminds us that we keep coming back, not just because politics is the only game in town, but because there's still a reason to care.
$9.99 (USD)