Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket 2nd printing 1995 Putnam. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Light-to-average edgewear to jacket. 309pp. Language: English. Satirical novel of presidential politics. 'Days after he has won the popular vote for U.S. president, Republican candidate MacArthur Foyle is fatally injured during a parade. Does this mean that his running mate, whom 60 percent of the American people believe is too dumb to do the job, is now the president-elect? Maybe not, because the Electoral College has not yet voted and, constitutionally at least, the College (not the people) elects the president. While the nation mourns, the politicians, lobbyists, and power brokers plot to gain the presidency for their own reward, and as the political crisis deepens, the world lurches toward economic collapse. This may sound like the premise of a political thriller, but it's actually the plot of a very funny satiric novel that skewers both the electoral system and public leaders and their motivations. The author is a correspondent for ABC News and an occasional host of Nightline.'--Charles Michaud, Library Journal.