The White House mess
By: Christopher Buckley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Politicians -- Fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Description: With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor's Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant's eyes, we see the in fighting that plagues the White House, the President's faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.