Clinton & me
Subtitle: A Real Life Political Comedy
By: Photo on page 103 courtesy of Doug Menuez
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Katz, Mark.; Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Friends and associates.; Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Miscellanea.; Speechwriters -- United States -- Biography.; Comedy -- Authorship -- Case studies.; Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Miscellanea.; Biography.; Case studies.; Biography
Other titles: Clinton and me
Description: "When you provide the comic relief for the Leader of the Free World, the line between funny and weird can get a little blurry. Consider the extraordinary experiences of Mark Katz, the in-house humor writer of the Clinton White House, whose job was to produce the president's comic response to the crisis du jour. For eight tumultuous years, he wrote Bill Clinton's annual series of humorous speeches to the Washington press corps - those rare evenings in the nation's capital when the president trades in his bully pulpit for an open mike. In a town where C-SPAN passes for entertainment, Katz faced the sometimes surreal task of finding the funny in an administration rocked by politics and partisanship; Whitewater and Waco; Dr. Elders and Henry Hyde; and - ultimately - the circus of impeachment." "Here, too, are the unlikely adventures of an itinerant wiseass careening down the bumpy path that takes him from the principal's office to the Oval Office. After college, Katz hitched his wagon to Michael Dukakis's star - only to become the joke writer for a campaign that was a joke unto itself. Four years later, he was an unemployed advertising copywriter in need of a job when he got a call from a Clinton White House desperately in need of jokes. And the rest, as they say, is comedy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Miramax books."
"A real life political comedy"--Cover.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The bravest thing I've ever done (The egg timer)
pagenum: 1; title: Chapter 1: Growing up Kennedy
pagenum: 17; title: Chapter 2: Anti-Nixon youth
pagenum: 25; title: Chapter 3: Portrait of the Wiseass as a young man
pagenum: 39; title: Chapter 4: How I didn't become an orthodontist
pagenum: 56; title: Chapter 5: The guy who made Mike Dukakis so funny
pagenum: 81; title: Chapter 6: A different kind of campaign
pagenum: 116; title: Chapter 7: Road trip to Little Rock
pagenum: 132; title: Chapter 8: White House operator calling
pagenum: 158; title: Chapter 9: People who people
pagenum: 200; title: Chapter 10: Boring-gate
pagenum: 209; title: Chapter 11: A wet hacking cough on the Presidency
pagenum: 224; title: Chapter 12: The way of the spork
pagenum: 239; title: Chapter 13: Ghostwriter overexposed
pagenum: 256; title: Chapter 14: My thirty-six finest hours
pagenum: 284; title: Chapter 15: Comic consigliere
pagenum: 303; title: Chapter 16: Apocalypse then
pagenum: 333; title: Chapter 17: 2000 zero, zero--party over, oops, out of time!
pagenum: 349