{"product_id":"9780812993684","title":"Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDogfight \u003c\/i\u003eis a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries Desperately to Make Light of a Bad Cough”). With the same barbed wit he displayed in the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eDeciding the Next Decider, Obliviously On He Sails, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Heckuva Job,\u003c\/i\u003e America’s deadline poet trains his sights on the Tea Party (“These folks were quick to vocally condemn\/All handouts but the ones that went to them”) and the slapstick field of contenders for the Republican nomination (“Though first-tier candidates were mostly out,\/Republicans were asking, “What about\/The second tier or what about the third?\/Has nothing from those other tiers been heard?”). There is an ode to Michele Bachmann, sung to the tune of a Beatles classic (“Michele, our belle\/Thinks that gays will all be sent to hell”) and passages on the exit of candidates like Herman Cain (“Although his patter in debates could tickle,\/Cain’s pool of knowledge seemed less pool than trickle”) and Rick Santorum (“The race will miss the purity\/That you alone endow.\/We’ll never find another man\/Who’s holier than thou.”)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On its way to the November 6 finale, Trillin’s narrative takes us through such highlights as the January caucuses in frigid Iowa (“To listen to long speeches is your duty,\/And getting there could freeze off your patootie”), the Republican convention (“It seemed like Clint, his chair, and their vignette\/Had wandered in from some adjoining set”), and Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded “47 percent” speech, which inspired the “I Got the Mitt Thinks I’m a Moocher, a Taker not a Maker, Blues.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007809732848,"sku":"9780812993684","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812993684_p0.jpg?v=1763813648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812993684","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}