Lieutenant Governor Mack of Oklahoma gets a fluke chance at the vice presidential nomination when he stands in for his ailing boss, addresses the Democratic National Convention, and receives resounding acclaim that places him on the Short List.
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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
YA-- Moments before he is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, Oklahoma Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman falls ill. Life is never the same for One-Eyed Mack, the lieutenant governor who steps in to deliver the 29-minute speech that concludes with an appeal for the return of the state's missing mummy. Suddenly Mack's name is being passed around as a possible vice-president. This droll, witty, fast-moving romp of politics--national to local--makes entertaining reading. Characters are highly recognizable, and their words and actions are predictable, but this adds to the fun. Readers see that what happens behind the scenes can be far different from what appears in print or on the screen--a civics lesson made real. YAs interested in campaigns, government, public life, etc. will laugh at this lighthearted satire.
- Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The One-Eyed Mack, the naive, open-eyed Oklahoma Lt. Governor (Lost and Found, p. 70, etc.) who explains that he and his wife Jackie, the drive-thru supermarket queen, ate dinner at ``Michelangelo's, a linen-tablecloth Italian restaurant named after an artist,'' recounts the feverish two days in 1976 when fate and David Brinkley tossed him onto the short list for the US vice-presidency. Holed up in a New York convention hotel with Sooner Gov. Buffalo Joe Hayman, Mack thinks his biggest headaches will be overpriced room- service meals and Buffalo Joe's dogged memorization of his keynote speech. Wrong: Joe suffers a stroke en route to the convention floor; Mack delivers the speech himself--tacking on a plea for anyone knowing the location of the 70-years-mummified body of George E. Stone (who claimed to be the escaped John Wilkes Booth) to get in touch with the Oklahoma Historical Society--and the country goes wild. (Brinkley: ``The country could do with a national candidate with a search for a mummy as a priority.'') Though the presidential candidate and his snakelike handlers are delighted to find that Mack has no views on any national issues, his skeletons--his gift of five '57 Ford Fairlanes from tainted oilman Cal Blackwell, his teenaged sexual encounter with a hooker, his shady motives for moving to Oklahoma in the first place, and a climactic allegation of plagiarism--burst from their closets with lightning speed (``ONE-EYED MUMMY-LOVING VEEP SHORT-LISTER ADMITS BUS SEX, PARDON SCHEME, SLOBBERS, PICKS NOSE!'' Mack imagines the headlines reporting his news conference). If this bright, affectionate tale peters out toward the end, well, let it go as a reminder that political scandal can still be great fun. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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