The Presidents Butler
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Just in time for the election, The President’s Butler 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.And 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.Laurence Leamer has written fifteen books, five of them New York Times best sellers. He has spent forty years observing American politics in preparation for this portrait of a Manhattan hillbilly reaching the White House. The 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 The President’s Butler. American journalists are portrayed as every bit as self-serving as the politicians they report upon.The President’s Butler 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. Early praise for The President’s Butler“The President’s Butler 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. “ David Corn, Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones "Laurence has pr
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