CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

In the not-so-distant future "Boomsday" looms large over the American economy: it's the day when the baby boomers begin to retire, crushing the country under the fiscal impossibility of their social security needs. Cassandra, a feisty, 20-something, father-hating, blog-writing publicist, has a solution: young people should stop paying taxes and the elderly should start committing suicide. Using this cultural uproar for a literary soap box, Christopher Buckley savagely satirizes politicians, special interest groups, and the various slimy creatures that inhabit Washington D.C.

In Buckley's ludicrously plausible imagination there was a President Thomas N Tucker between Reagan and Bush, (1989-93). The book takes the form of a memoir by his friend and assistant, Herbert Wadlough. It's all here - sex, drink, drugs and scandal - recounted in well-paced prose that is both compelling and humorous. Each chapter is a short story in itself, helping to paint a clear picture of a four-year farce. It is reminiscent at times of reading Wodehouse's Blandings short stories. High praise, indeed.

The bestselling author of the comic classics "The White House Mess" and "Thank You for Smoking" returns to the funniest place in America--Washington, D.C.--as the

Hilarante sátira de la sociedad y política norteamericanas en torno a su documentada creencia en la presencia de extraterrestres en la Tierra. Apoyándose en la documentada creencia del 80% de la población norteamericana de que su gobierno le ha ocultado, durante largo tiempo, información concerniente a la presencia de extraterrestres en el planeta Tierra, Christopher Buckley realiza una excelente sátira que gira en torno a la estupidez y al tedio vital que permean el American way of life, en la que todos, desde el presidente de los Estados Unidos hasta, por supuesto, sus gobernados, son objeto del escrutinio y burla de su hilarante pluma.