Christopher Buckley Livres

Nick Naylor a sûrement le job le plus ingrat de tous les Etats-Unis. Porte-parole de l'industrie du tabac, il est l'un des hommes les plus impopulaires de Washington. De conférence de presse en talk-show télévisé, de colloque sur la santé en réunion à Hollywood, son habile - et douteuse - défense du tabagisme soulève les passions et l'entraîne dans des aventures invraisemblables. Voire parfois périlleuses... Drôle, cocasse, un rien provocateur et très peu politically correct, ce roman qui se moque du " néo-puritanisme " américain, tout en soulignant l'hypocrisie profonde et choquante de l'industrie du tabac, est un véritable tour de force. Christopher Buckley fait preuve, dans cette satire de l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui, d'une finesse, d'un mordant et d'un humour dévastateurs.

J. O. Banion est un coriace : son talk-show bat les records d'audience en déliant les langues de bois. Le jour où il croise un engin lumineux et des êtres parlant une langue incompréhensible, il doute. Des jardiniers ? Des pompiers ? Des terroristes ? La seule réponse plausible : des extra-terrestres. Le plus cynique des présentateurs télé doit prouver que les petits hommes verts existent...

Ils exagèrent, tous ces retraités. À Washington, entre villas de luxe et terrains de golf, ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à vivre aux crochets de la jeune génération. Aidée par un sénateur assoiffé de pouvoir, Cassandra, conseillère en communication et bloggeuse révoltée, déclare la guerre aux baby-boomers. Son arme ? Le "transitionnement volontaire", comprenez : le suicide assisté...

With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant’s eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President’s faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.

Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first- hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.

In this sharp satire by acclaimed author Tom Wolfe, the U.S. President seeks revenge on the Senate by nominating a beloved TV judge to the Supreme Court. Praised for his humor and political wit, Wolfe delivers a hilarious critique of contemporary politics in this trade paperback edition.

Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor is not surprised - he's the only attorney up to the job and he knows it. It's all going swimmingly - he's got it nailed, until his client decides she wants to take the stand and restore her reputation and he has no choice but to acquiesce. Throw in several egos the size of the White House, media-spin like there's no tomorrow, the old boy network, some very underhand business involving the FBI, a pregnancy, a few sex toys and a dose of Viagra and you're some way into this delicious farce - which becomes all the more delicious when you realise how small a leap of the imagination is required to get there.

The award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman—Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff—who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia. Herb Nutterman never intended to become Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff. Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks “his favorite Jew” to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty, agrees. But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert. Soon, Herb finds himself deeply involved in Russian intrigue, deflecting rumors about Mike Pence’s high school involvement in a Satanic cult, and leading President Trump’s reelection campaign. What Nutterman experiences is outrageous, outlandish, and otherwise unbelievable—therefore making it a deadly accurate account of being the chief of staff during the Trump administration. With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe).

Florence Farfarletti has a bold plan for female emancipation in the Middle East and enlists the assistance of a motley team of ''activists'' to help her carry out her plan of reaching her audience with TV shows.

Charlie Becker, a defense contractor in control of America's biggest conglomerates, unleashes his own private army of experts on the job when his granddaughter, Tasha, dies of a drug overdose. Reprint.