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Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse by Calvin Trillin 1st Edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 2010s
- Illustrator
- Barry Blitt
- Signed
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, First Edition
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780812993684
- Book Title
- Dogfight : the 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
- Item Length
- 7.3 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Humor, Political Science
- Topic
- Topic / Politics, Form / Limericks & Verse, Commentary & Opinion
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Product Information
In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose ("Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries Desperately to Make Light of a Bad Cough"). With the same barbed wit he displayed in the bestsellers Deciding the Next Decider, Obliviously On He Sails, and A Heckuva Job, America's deadline poet trains his sights on the Tea Party ("These folks were quick to vocally condemn/All handouts but the ones that went to them") and the slapstick field of contenders for the Republican nomination ("Though first-tier candidates were mostly out,/Republicans were asking, "What about/The second tier or what about the third?/Has nothing from those other tiers been heard?"). There is an ode to Michele Bachmann, sung to the tune of a Beatles classic ("Michele, our belle/Thinks that gays will all be sent to hell") and passages on the exit of candidates like Herman Cain ("Although his patter in debates could tickle,/Cain's pool of knowledge seemed less pool than trickle") and Rick Santorum ("The race will miss the purity/That you alone endow./We'll never find another man/Who's holier than thou.") On its way to the November 6 finale, Trillin's narrative takes us through such highlights as the January caucuses in frigid Iowa ("To listen to long speeches is your duty,/And getting there could freeze off your patootie"), the Republican convention ("It seemed like Clint, his chair, and their vignette/Had wandered in from some adjoining set"), and Mitt Romney's secretly recorded "47 percent" speech, which inspired the "I Got the Mitt Thinks I'm a Moocher, a Taker not a Maker, Blues."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812993683
ISBN-13
9780812993684
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114107975
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dogfight : the 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Politics, Form / Limericks & Verse, Commentary & Opinion
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Humor, Political Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.3 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.R5d64 2012
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-043514
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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