The Making of the Prefident 1789

A “witty, funny and hysterically silly” political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine ( The New York Times ).   Lampooning the modern “campaign insider” books, this book asks: “How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more battles than he wins and becomes a war hero? He has absolutely no political opinions in the most sophisticated intellectual period of our history? He has no ambitions, and he wins?”   Through careful rese