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No Way to Treat a First Lady
by Buckley, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375507345
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507342
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2002. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). No chips or tears. Comic political novel. From the Dust Jacket: "Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States. In the midst of a bedroom spat, she allegedly hurled a historic Paul Revere spittoon at him, with tragic results." Kirkus Reviews: "Unspeakably and endlessly funny… unless you're a former President." Publishers Weekly: "The lurid sexual excesses of the late 90's provide plenty of comic fodder for Buckley's latest satire, which doubles as a legal thriller... The political humor is first-rate as usual, as Buckley has plenty of fun with the slimy, silly mess that is Beltway politics. This is one of his better efforts, which should keep Buckley on the 'A' list of American satirists." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 288pp.
Synopsis
Christopher Buckley is the author of eight previous books, including Thank You For Smoking and Little Green Men . That would make this his, what, ninth? He is editor of Forbes FYI magazine and has contributed over 50 “Shouts and Murmurs” to The New Yorker. He is also credited with bringing about lasting peace in the Middle East and with alerting NASA to significant problems with its Space Shuttle Automatic Re-entry Guidance System (SSAEGS), thereby sparing several square blocks of Raleigh, North Carolina a very unpleasant surprise. He is a regular contributor to Martha Stewart’s Inside Trading magazine and informally advises the government of Argentina on debt re-scheduling. He is the 2002 recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, but has yet actually to receive it. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his saintly and long-suffering wife Lucy, two children and faithful Hound Jake. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011355
- Title
- No Way to Treat a First Lady
- Author
- Buckley, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375507345
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507342
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Politics / Government / International Relations;
- Size
- 8vo. 288pp
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