CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

In the not-so-distant future "Boomsday" looms large over the American economy: it's the day when the baby boomers begin to retire, crushing the country under the fiscal impossibility of their social security needs. Cassandra, a feisty, 20-something, father-hating, blog-writing publicist, has a solution: young people should stop paying taxes and the elderly should start committing suicide. Using this cultural uproar for a literary soap box, Christopher Buckley savagely satirizes politicians, special interest groups, and the various slimy creatures that inhabit Washington D.C.

In Buckleys ludicrously plausible imagination there was a President Thomas N Tucker between Reagan and Bush, (198993). The book takes the form of a memoir by his friend and assistant, Herbert Wadlough. Its all here sex, drink, drugs and scandal recounted in well-paced prose that is both compelling and humorous. Each chapter is a short story in itself, helping to paint a clear picture of a four-year farce. It is reminiscent at times of reading Wodehouses Blandings short stories. High praise, indeed.

Hilarante sátira de la sociedad y política norteamericanas en torno a su documentada creencia en la presencia de extraterrestres en la Tierra. Apoyándose en la documentada creencia del 80% de la poblacion norteamericana de que su gobierno le ha ocultado, durante largo tiempo, informacion concerniente a la presencia de extraterrestres en el planeta Tierra, Christopher Buckley realiza una excelente satira que gira en torno a la estupidez y al tedio vital que permean el American way of life, en la que todos, desde el presidente de los Estados Unidos hasta, por supuesto, sus gobernados, son objeto del escrutinio y burla de su hilarante pluma.

The bestselling author of the comic classics "The White House Mess" and "Thank You for Smoking" returns to the funniest place in America--Washington, D.C.--as the First Lady is charged with killing h