Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme (Hardcover)

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• Number of Pages: 128
• ISBN: 1400068282
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112299067
• Release Date: November 25, 2008
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Calvin Trillin's humorous and insightful take on the campaign for the presidency 2008 delighted his fans when these verses first appeared serially in various publications, including the Nation. Collected here for the first time, they provide a full sweep of history in verse form. Trillin takes on candidates of both parties, capturing in concise and rhyming lines the personalities, situations, and foibles of those hopefuls and nopefuls. DECIDING THE DECIDER follows Trillin's other collections of verse commentary, OBLIVIOUSLY ON HE SAILS ALONG and A HECKUVA JOB.

The end of the Bush era is almost upon us, but that doesn't mean that Calvin Trillin can rest on his laurels. Returning to the form (and forum) that made bestsellers of "Obliviously On He Sails" and "A Heckuva Job," the putative Bard of the Bush presidency trains his sights this year's presidential pageant.
From the early primary battles to the general election, Trillin recreates in verse all the lowlights of the endless campaign slog. From Mitt Romney's failed crusade, seen here in all its vacillating splendor ("Those Massachusetts views he once embraced-/ The views that had been totally replaced / By views designed to make a case and vector it / Directly to the heart of this electorate") to the happening-in-slow-motion implosion of Hillary Clinton's stalled drive to the White House ("Some pundits wrote that Hil's campaign might fare / A little better if Bill wasn't there.")
Though many may be gone, they're certainly not forgotten: The somnambulant Fred Thompson's and his misadventures in South Carolina ("The pros said, 'That's a state he'd have to take' / And he just might, if he can stay awake."); the pious and pithy Mike Huckabee; elfin Dennis Kucinich (.,." whose frail appearance / suggested he'd not finished all his spinach."); and of course, the eventual nominees, John McCain and Barack Obama, who fought tirelessly for nothing less than the right to be the target of Trillin's pen for the next four-to-eight years.
Election 2008: Never have so many said so much in the pursuit of so little. And who better than Calvin Trillin to encapsulate in crystalline verse every vainglorious speech, flat-footed gaffe, blatant misstatement, and calculated pandering gesture of the manymen (and one woman) who knew in their hearts that only they could ably guide the Free World. It's all here (except for the issue of race, which as everybody knows, is not really an issue in twenty-first century America...). And it's so delightfully off-kilter that even the unhinged candidacy of Mike Gravel (.,."who seemed to revel / In being just a bubble off of level.") seemed the model of stability by comparison.

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