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POLITICAL FICTION HISTORICAL, LITERARY, or SATIRICAL
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by Anonymous
This worm's-eye view of extreme politics is a slightly sharper-edged version of The West Wing, dominated by world-weary but once idealistic operatives who dislike being thought of as operatives and who are loyal to a president who's got just a touch too much on his plate: health care, climate change, war, terrorism and "a big, fat, catastrophic, global recession, courtesy of [O's] predecessor."
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by Christopher Buckley
Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks "his favorite Jew" to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty, agrees. But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert
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by Jerome Charyn
Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
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by Dave Eggers
A boorish ignoramus takes command of a noble vessel and heads full speed ahead into chaos. Yes, it's an allegory. When the commander of the ship Glory retires, a corrupt (not to mention "large and lumpy") kitsch merchant nominates himself for the job, enchanting some and horrifying others
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by James Ellroy
There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.
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by Steve Erickson
Two siblings traveling cross-country stop to visit the Twin Towers, which have mysteriously reappeared in the badlands of South Dakota, while the stillborn twin of Elvis Presley emerges from the Towers to live a life that never was.
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by Ramin Ganeshram
The celebrated chef of President George Washington, Hercules hides the private torment of his enslaved status behind luxurious privileges and masterful culinary skills while secretly learning to read and pursuing a dangerous affair.
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by Glen David Gold
Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and enthusiasm of postwar, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is the complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical -- and sometimes dangerous -- world, where illusion is everything, and everything is illusory.
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by Kristin Gore
A mildly hypochondriac but sweet young senatorial aide takes everything mean old Washington can throw at her while giving her all to a possible national program to lower prescription costs for senior citizens.
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by Carl Hiaasen
When a high-society dowager murdered at the height of Palm Beach’s charity gala season is declared a political martyr by the colorful President she supported, a talented wildlife wrangler uncovers the truth amid the discovery of a controversial affair.
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by Steve Israel
In response to efforts to ban handguns in America’s cities, the CEO of an arms company, worried about his bottom line, introduces federal legislation that would require every American own a gun, in a darkly comic novel by a former U.S. Congressman.
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by James Lehrer
A Secret Service agent who made the fateful decision to remove the security bubble from John F. Kennedy's parade car struggles with suicidal feelings of guilt until a young reporter endeavors to determine the day's outcome if the bubbletop had been in place.
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by Thomas Mallon
Conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now, moving readers from the private cabins of Camp David to the klieg lights of the Senate Caucus Room, from the District of Columbia jail to the Dupont Circle mansion of Theodore Roosevelt's sharp-tongued ninety-year-old daughter, and into the hive of the Watergate complex itself.
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Written in 1941, McKay's novel describes a time a few years earlier, when Harlem was alive with talk of African-American civil rights as Franklin Roosevelt entered his third term as president
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by Andrew Shaffer
Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted -- the 44th president of the United States.
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by John Smolens
On a stifling, hot afternoon in September 1901, a young anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, who has been stalking President William McKinley, waits in line to meet the president, his right hand wrapped in a handkerchief and held across his chest as though it were in a sling. But the handkerchief conceals a .32-caliber revolver, and when the president greets him, Czolgosz fires two shots.
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by Jake Tapper
After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
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by Kurt Vonnegut
Rich/poor, honest/criminal, management/labor -- Vonnegut playfully explores the ease with which an American Everyman can alternate between these ostensible extremes. No one can make America into childlike myth like Vonnegut can. Here he takes capitalism, labor history, Sacco-Vanzetti, McCarthyism, and Watergate, and puts them all into the slender memoirs of Walter F. Starbuck
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The Lost Diary of Mby Paul WolfeAn engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer-- secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.
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by Jessica Yellin
Natalie Savage covers the White House for ATN network. Except the gig is temporary, to see if she's got "it". Her competition? A spoiled frat boy who got his TV break eating raw animal parts on a reality show. Guess who's winning?
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