{"product_id":"obliviously-on-he-sails-the-bush-administration-in-rhyme","title":"Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme","description":"112 pages. \"Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush’s rescue in the South Carolina primary by the Christian Right ('I am, when all is said and done, a Robertson Republican'), to a bilingual approach, when commenting on the President’s casual acknowledgment, after months of trying to persuade the nation otherwise, that there was never any evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9\/11: 'The Web may say, or maybe Lexis-Nexis \/ If chutzpa is a word they use in Texas.' Trillin deals not only with George W. Bush but with the people around him — Supreme Commander Karl Rove and Condoleezza (Mushroom Cloud) Rice and Nanny Dick Cheney ('One mystery I’ve tried to disentangle: \/ Why Cheney’s head is always at an angle...') The armchair warriors Trillin refers to as the Sissy Hawk Brigade are celebrated in such poems as 'Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?' and 'A Sissy Hawk Cheer' ('All-out war is still our druthers— \/ Fiercely fought, and fought by others.'). Trillin may never be poet laureate — certainly not while George W. Bush is in office — but his wit and his political insight produce what has been called 'doggerel for the ages.'\"\r\n\r\n","brand":"Random House, New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20584367554630,"sku":"1505705","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/obliviously-on-he-sails-the-bush-administration-in-rhyme","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}