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In this hilarious, scathing, and passionate novel of politics gone haywire, Ev Ehrlich tells the story of an innocent in wonderland, of the woman he falls in love with, and of players, politicians, and panderers of all shapes and sizes. Here is a Washington as seen through the lens of a Twain, Heller, or Christopher Buckley, but with an insider's knowledge of just how outrageous -- and, thankfully, just how irrelevant -- the government can be.
Amazon.com Review
Big business turned to Republican Wade Hoak to keep the United States on track, and for three years as president that's just what he's done. But "when it's not depressing or frightening," he says, "being president is just annoying. I'm tired of meeting Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and Olympic heroes and people with diseases. I live in a fishbowl and I'm surrounded by Secret Service agents. I have to wear a bulletproof vest that makes me sweat like a pig. I have to fly everywhere and you know how I hate that. I've forgotten how to balance my checkbook, and how to light a barbecue. I'm sixty-two years old and, frankly, I don't need it." So he quits.
Shortly afterward, a geology professor with a fellowship to work as an aide to a congressional committee is handed a loser issue--a call for increased daylight saving time--and somehow manages to keep falling upward. Another congressional aide befriends Rep. Senior Younger Jr., 114 years old and ready to be a congressman forever: "I don't want to live in a home, so I'd better stay here." Behind the farcical plotting, Ev Ehrlich gets in some savagely funny digs at the deal brokering and image management that make up American politics in the 1990s. Big Government is a brisk, entertaining romp that leaves the reader eager for more. --Ron Hogan
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