{"product_id":"9780692765746","title":"The President's Butler","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust in time for the election, \u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e will make you laugh out loud about politics. You’ll join Vincent V. Victor on the most wildly improbable journey of our time. The flamboyant New Yorker evolves from the most hated businessman in America to a populist hero. When Victor falls on financial hard times, he decides to run for president and sets off on a campaign that changes America forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd who’s there to tell the story but the man who knows Victor best, his butler Billy Baxter. The butler sees it all, forgets nothing, and tells everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurence Leamer has written fifteen books, five of them \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best sellers. He has spent forty years observing American politics in preparation for this portrait of a Manhattan hillbilly reaching the White House. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author has written about all the major players from Donald Trump to George Wallace, and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ted Kennedy, and infused much of what he’s learned of them in this searing fictional portrait of American politics and culture gone wrong. And it isn’t only politicians who are savagely skewed in \u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e. American journalists are portrayed as every bit as self-serving as the politicians they report upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the funniest novels in years, but it is also drop dead serious. It is a book that no one who reads it will ever forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly praise for \u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e cannot be read without thinking of….well, you know who. But a reader won’t know whether to laugh or cry at this spot-on satirical romp deftly eviscerates modern-day politics that are almost too absurd to parody yet also too frightening to ignore. “\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e David Corn, Washington bureau chief, \u003cem\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laurence has produced not just another political story with a short shelf space. This is a wonderful read and he has combined all the elements of some of the greatest American novels. There is a whole lot of \u003cem\u003eGatsby\u003c\/em\u003e here along with much that is something reminiscent of bestselling Fletcher Knebel's \u003cem\u003eDark Horse\u003c\/em\u003e. The narrator talks to us in the voice of Jack Burden, the haunted and dark soul who suffered through his years with Willie Stark, the Huey Long type in Robert Penn Warren's classic \u003cem\u003eAll the King's Men. \u003c\/em\u003eWhile the relevance to the 2016 Presidential campaign is obvious, this novel is really for the ages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Zogby, founder of the Zogby Poll and author of \u003cem\u003eWe Are Many, We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in 21st Century America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully written, \u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e will make readers groan and roar with laughter, and puts Leamer in heady company, as the worthy inheritor of Sinclair Lewis, Robert Penn Warren and Tom Wolfe. Leamer’s protagonist, Vincent Victor, is the new Gatsby, reflecting all that compels our era’s rendezvous with inanity: ambition, class, politics and greed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Perry, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Parts of \u003cem\u003eThe President’s Butler\u003c\/em\u003e may be laugh-out-loud funny, but this is a serious and important book that must be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurence Kotlikoff, presidential candidate at Kotlikoff2016.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e​\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foggy Bottom Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091458003184,"sku":"9780692765746","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692765746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}