Taft 2012
  • Published: 15 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781594745508
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Taft 2012

A Novel

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We see this as a hot presidential-election-year title, a strong bestseller candidate for the Jon Stewart/Onion/David Sedaris market.

HE'S BACK.
AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.

He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is.

There’s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well and considering a running mate in 2012? 

A most extraordinary satire, Jason Heller’s debut novel follows the strange new life of a presidential Rip Van Winkle: a man who never even wanted the White House in the first place, yet finds himself hurtling toward it once more—this time, through the media-fueled madness of 21st-century America.
  • Published: 15 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781594745508
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Jason Heller

is a longtime entertainment journalist for The A.V. Club and coauthor of its 2009 pop culture bible Inventory. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and is currently writing a steampunk pirate novel.

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