{"product_id":"9781743583715","title":"The President's Desk: An alt-history of the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe President’s Desk\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I’m leaving out Nixon, obviously). This epic retelling of the history of the United States takes us from the desk’s early life as the humble timbers of a barquentine frozen in the waters of the Arctic, through its transformation by decree of Queen Victoria, to over a century in the Oval Office as an eventual antique.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContains \u003cb\u003e1000 UNTOLD SECRETS\u003c\/b\u003e of the American presidency, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy Jimmy Carter destroyed Washington\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow George W. Bush killed John Howard\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhen Calvin Coolidge appeared nude on his own coin\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWho drowned Warren Harding in his own hotel room\u003c\/li\u003e What Herbert Hoover really thought when he was attacked by Rin-Tin-Tin \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by \u003cb\u003eShaun Micallef\u003c\/b\u003e, star of \u003ci\u003eShaun Micallef's Mad as Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTalkin' 'Bout Your Generation\u003c\/i\u003e and, to a lesser extent, \u003ci\u003eMr and Mrs Murder\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'One of the greatest comic voices of our time'\u003c\/i\u003e Matt Lucas, \u003ci\u003eLittle Britain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Australia's finest satirist and comic surrealist.'\u003c\/i\u003e, Ben Elton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Read it for too long and you get grin aches in your jawbones.' The Herald Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Shaun Micallef has a gift for the surreal. The English language is a sunlit garden. Shaun has a Harley-Davidson and a cast-iron alibi. He will be home by nightfall. You may hear some noise. It will be made by you. You will feel much better afterwards.’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e John Clarke\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardie Grant Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300963598576,"sku":"9781743583715","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781743583715_p0.jpg?v=1763706602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781743583715","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}