Dogfight The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse

by TRILLIN, CALVIN

• ISBN13: 9780812993684
• ISBN10: 0812993683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-20
• Publisher: Random House

Summary

In a laugh-out-loud book of political verse and personal observations, Calvin Trillin provides riotous accompaniment to this year's presidential election, in which Obama and Romney will "dogfight" to the end. Here America's preeminent humorist satirically skewers the current occupant of the White House, along with all his Republican challengers-from Mitt to Newt, Perry to Paul, with dash of Bachmann and Santorum thrown in for good measure. A campaign that's given us so much material-Super PACs and sudden memory lapses, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, Mormons and libertarians, dogs on cars and open marriages-has finally found the perfect chronicler. Once again, Calvin Trillin takes his poetic license to the wittiest possible extreme.

Author Biography

A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation’s deadline poet, at a fee he has been complaining about since 1990. His acclaimed books range from the memoir About Alice to Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. He lives in New York.