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Author Latimer, Matt.

Title Speech less : tales of a White House survivor / Matt Latimer.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.931 L349s 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 294 p. ; 25 cm.
Note Includes index.
Summary Latimer, a young conservative speechwriter, pens this hilarious yet poignant account of life inside the White House, as he laments a certain kind of principled conservatism that disappeared in the last years of the Bush presidency.
Contents Introduction: Where's Goofy? -- Shining city on a hill -- "One catastrophic gaffe a week" -- The purse boys -- Rummy -- "I'm going to die with these dummies" -- The cleaners -- The real West Wing -- The secret speechwriters society -- The mayor of control -- Going wobbly -- Final delusions.
Subject Latimer, Matt.
Speechwriters -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 21st century.
Latimer, Matt.
Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Friends and associates.
United States -- Politics and government.
Added Title Speechless : tales of a White House survivor
ISBN 9780307463722
0307463729

 
    
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