The Coup by Jamie Malanowski

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201mm x 137mm x 19mm

Seiten: 256

Product Description


Godwin Pope is bored out of his skull. Now Vice President, the one-time software billionaire and hyperconfident alpha male has been reduced to the most menial of tasks. Meanwhile President Jack Mahone's administration sinks lower and lower in the polls with every gaffe and self-generated fiasco. Into Pope's orbit swings Maggie Newbold, the sexy fallen-star journalist with a bad habit of sleeping with her sources. Using Maggie as an unwitting pawn, Pope sets in motion a plot of incredible subtlety designed to push the Mahone administration over the edge. The Coup is deliciously cynical, surpassingly witty and worryingly believable!


Review


'A Romp Through the D.C. Underbrush
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--The New York Observer


'Malanowski out-Buckleys Christopher Buckley.
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--
The Wall Street Journal


'A Carl Hiaasen-style take on Washington's greed and power lust.
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--Entertainment Weekly



'As entertaining as it is scary.'
--Publishers' Weekly 'Malanowski's sardonic humour makes Pope's masterly manipulation of his fellow politicians seem disturbingly believable.'' --Telegraph.co.UK


From the Author


GOT THE IDEA FOR
THE COUP DURING the impeachment year of 1998. Some commentators argued that the effort to impeach President Clinton was really nothing more than an attempt by Tom DeLay and the Republicans to stage a coup. If that were true, I thought, it wouldn't be much of a coup. It would leave in power a Democratic president, Al Gore, a capable fellow who could have ended up living in the White House for ten years. No, a real coup would result in a takeover by the plotters. That would be hard to do, given the line of succession in this country. Unless the plotter was the vice president. But why would he do that? And how could he hope to pull it off?
I was also struck by the fact that there were a lot of scandals during the Clinton years. Some were scummy but ultimately not worth examining. Some seemed more serious, but while the appearance of wrongdoing abounded, there was no smoking gun. Of course, once Clinton was finally impeached, it was for lying under oath, and plainly there was ample proof that he did it. For various reasons, though, the Senate declined to convict him and remove him from office. I began to wonder if the opposite could ever pertain. Could a president ever be accused of something for which there was no real evidence, but which would be so serious that simply suspecting him of the crime could cost him his job?

Finally, I began to think about the predicaments in which we find ourselves when we are governed by people who are better at winning elections than at ruling, and whose actions we learn about from a news media that often seems to do the right things for the wrong reasons or the wrong things for the right reasons. Sigh.

With luck, you'll laugh.


About the Author


JAMIE MALANOWSKI IS A WRITER AND EDITOR. A member of the original staff of
Spy, where he worked seven years, Jamie has also been an editor at
Time, Esquire and most recently Playboy, where he was Managing Editor. Currently he is the lead writer of the Disunion Blog, about the Civil War, for The New York Times; the series was presented with the 2010 Cliopatria Award for Best History Writing on the web. Jamie has also written for The New Yorker
, Vanity Fair, The Washington Monthly, and many other publications.