Unwilling to end his affair with Lucinda Bibby, the wife of ridiculously stupid senator Brent Bibby, presidential candidate Roger Ross selects Bibby as his running mate, thus placing the stupidest man in Washington a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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From Publishers Weekly
Wealthy Brent Bibby, a politician with a good tennis game and a Senate seat his father bought him, stumbles in on his beautiful wife Lucinda in flagrante with Gov. Roger Ross. Straining for a plausible excuse, Ross, the apparent Republican Presidential nominee, ends up asking Bibby to be his running mate. Based on the proposition that someone as stunningly stupid as Bibby could rise to the Vice Presidency, this satire, a first novel by the national editor of Spy , reworks familiar jokes, capturing a fractured Presidential syntax (such as in Ross's inner monologues on doughnuts) and setting Bibby's gleefully dim witticisms in embarrassingly public scenes. At its best, the cautionary tale is so blindingly funny that it's impossible to laugh and still keep one's eyes on the page; at its worst, it's rompingly absurd. Malanowski wickedly reduces statecraft to constituent elements of pomposity, puerility and payback, while he keeps the scenes in the politicians' inner sanctums always vaguely familiar, equal parts National Public Radio and Saturday Night Live . This gifted satirist's delightful election-year broadside is as accurate as it is preposterous.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The national editor of Spy magazine goes book-length with one of his favorite amusements, trashing an American vice-president. Now, this has happened after the Bush presidency, you understand, but the similarities to recent events are--how shall we put it?--eerie. At the last possible moment, Governor Roger Ross, the Republican presidential nominee, picks for his running mate Brent Bibby, an unknown, handsome, athletic, and thoroughly vacant Indiana senator whose newspaper publisher father is a big party contributor. Why? Unlike our current chief, candidate Ross is a widower, and, unlike our notably virtuous second lady, Lucinda, Senator Bibby's very clever, very ambitious, very stunning wife, is available. Unable to resist availing himself of luscious Lucinda, a beguiled Governor Ross--to the horror of his campaign staff and the detriment of his candidacy--puts the Senator where he can keep the closest possible eye on the Mrs. Bibby. Alas for the nation, Ross's opponent chokes to death on a baby carrot just before the election, and Senator Bibby is a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. The vice-presidential job turns out to be unusually ceremonial. As the nation's chief ribbon-cutter, Bibby spends night after night out of Washington, allowing Lucinda to spend night after night on the Chief Executive Beautyrest. Then, on a fact- finding trip to a strife-torn Central American country, the vice- president is captured by guerrillas and learns to Be A Man. Funny in spots, particularly the vice-presidential utterances, but otherwise watered-down Waugh. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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I am a writer, an editor, and a teacher. I've published two novels (The Coup, Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington), co-written an Off-Broadway play (Loose Lips, with Kurt Andersen and Lisa Birnbach), and written an HBO Movie (Pentagon Wars, starring Kelsey Grammer). I've had a long career writing and editing for magazines. I was on the original staff of Spy, where I worked for seven years, mostly as National Editor. I've also been an editor at Time, Esquire and Playboy. My current project is writing a blog about the Civil War (we're about to mark its 150th anniversary), which The New York Times will begin publishing in November (nytimes.com). I live in Westchester County NY with my wife, Ginny, and my beautiful daughters Maria and Cara.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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It's funny!,
This review is from: Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington (Hardcover)
This book is funny. A light, quick humorous read. Enjoyable. Didn't seem to me to matter what your politics are, it's just funny.It's also funny that some other reviewers think it's poking fun at our current President. Perhaps that says more about the reviewers' opinion of the President than it does about the author because the book was published in 1992! Or maybe they think the author was able to predict the future? It's just a romp. Enjoy!
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One of my all-time favorites,
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This review is from: Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington (Hardcover)
A hilarious political satire. See his new novel, The Coup, as well as his HBO movie, Pentagon WarsThe Coup: A Novel The Pentagon Wars
5.0 out of 5 stars
really funny political satire,
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Wow, some people have no sense of humor!Brent Bibby is the son of a wealthy conservative, a tennis pro who was given a Senate seat by his dad, but who isn't the sharpest pencil in the box; however, Brent has one major thing going for him -- a wife who's a knockout. At least the future President thinks so. So he asks Bibby to be his running mate. There are lots of laughs here, at both liberals and conservatives, but mainly at politicians. Very entertaining.
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