description: Mark Katz was the kid who cracked jokes from the back row of seventh grade English class-but grew up to write humor speeches for the president of the United States. Clinton Me is his comic account of an eventful path from the principal's ofce to the Oval Ofce and the many stops along the way. Over the course of eight years in the chaotic Clinton White House, his job was to write the president's funny response to the crisis of the moment-from 'I did not inhale' to 'I did not have sex with that woman.' How did Mark Katz wind up in the White House? He spent his childhood trying to make the Nixon Enemy List and deploying classroom jokes to deny others their education. He hitched his wagon to Michael Dukakis' star-only to become the joke writer on a campaign that was a joke unto itself. Four years later, he was an unemployed copywriter when he got a call from a flailing Clinton White House in need of jokes. And the rest, as they say, is comedy. Clinton Me chronicles an unforgettable presidency from a unique vantage point, weaving Wonder Years-hindsights with high-stakes, real-life West Wing drama. Sure to nd a home on nightstands next to the books of Christopher Buckley, David Sedaris, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos, Clinton Me is a life-long coming-of-age story unlike any political memoir ever written.
language: English
title: Clinton and Me a Real Life Political Comedy
titlecomplete: Clinton and Me a Real Life Political Comedy
genres: Humor, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Hyperion Books