A nuclear device wipes out Washington DC. It can only have been the Royalists, led by the family of Colonel Chay Appleton, the US Army's greatest hero. They aim to become America's imperial dynasty, and Chay is now the obvious choice to run the country.
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Condon's ( Prizzi's Honor ) 23rd novel, a broad satire about the "Imperial Presidency," aims much of its humor and all of its anger at former president Ronald Reagan. Every improbable and often hilarious event is explained with reference to either the former chief executive or one of his staff (Oliver North is a favorite target). After Washington is destroyed by a nuclear explosion, the Royalist Party comes to power and names army colonel Caesare (Chay) Appleton CINCAFUS-CIAFBIANSA (Commander in Chief, Armed Forces of the U.S. plus the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency). Chay devotes himself to defending the nation against the "evil empire" of Nicaragua and is eventually proclaimed emperor of the American Republic under legislation buried in an Omnibus Enabling Act that also grants the long-awaited congressional pay raise. Before his inevitable downfall, Chay beds almost every woman he meets and installs one of his brothers as the first American pope. Despite occasional confusion, much sad truth is suggested in these outrageous pages.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Born and raised in New York City, Richard Condon began writing fiction in his forties. He had previously worked in the movie business for more than twenty years as a press agent for Walt Disney productions, putting in time at nearly all of the major studios. In addition to The Manchurian Candidate -- a work that many feel disturbingly foreshadowed the assassination of both President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert -- he wrote numerous bestsellers, including Prizzi's Honor and Prizzi's Family. He died in 1996.
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IN THE LATE SPRING OF 1988, four months before his thirty-eighth birthday, Colonel Caesare Appleton was having a really maruelous lunch in the best hotel in Almodovar, in southern Portugal, with a ravishing Portuguese woman who wore a red balibuntal hat and seemed to know all sorts of boring facts about American television shows and performers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Wambly Keifetz, Ronald Reagan, White House, Liz Wantonberg, Marshal of the American Union, Caesare Appleton, Eddie Grogan, Pink House, Graciela Winkelreid, Marshal Appleton, Chay Appleton, Hedda Blitzen, Miss Winkelreid, House of Lords, Sheila Plantenbower, Adam Appleton, North Slope, General Quest, Nantucket Island, Bahama Beaver, Cape Disappointment, Jonathan Appleton, Emperor of the American Republic New!
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IN THE LATE SPRING OF 1988, four months before his thirty-eighth birthday, Colonel Caesare Appleton was having a really maruelous lunch in the best hotel in Almodovar, in southern Portugal, with a ravishing Portuguese woman who wore a red balibuntal hat and seemed to know all sorts of boring facts about American television shows and performers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Wambly Keifetz, Ronald Reagan, White House, Liz Wantonberg, Marshal of the American Union, Caesare Appleton, Eddie Grogan, Pink House, Graciela Winkelreid, Marshal Appleton, Chay Appleton, Hedda Blitzen, Miss Winkelreid, House of Lords, Sheila Plantenbower, Adam Appleton, North Slope, General Quest, Nantucket Island, Bahama Beaver, Cape Disappointment, Jonathan Appleton, Emperor of the American Republic New!
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- Death of a Politician by Richard Condon in Front Matter
- Latin America by Arthur Morris on page 250
- What Next, Baby Bear? (Pied Piper) by Jill Murphy in Front Matter
- A Talent for Loving by Richard Condon in Front Matter
- Winter Kills by Richard Condon in Front Matter
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