American Hero

American Hero by Beinhart, Larry. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679472766.

Lee Atwater is on his deathbed. He isnt thinking death. Hes thinking king-making. And hes thinking that it wasnt enough to have raised up the king...now he has to protect him - even from beyond the grave. It means entrusting his last - his greatest - reelection scam to Jim Baker, and when he hands it over, he wraps it in a warning: "Dont show it to Georgie, now. Dont even look, now. Wait until youre in trouble." Think of Lots wife. Think of Orpheus. Think of Pandora. Think of Baker opening Atwaters memo the minute he steps out of the hospital room. And think of him reading a plan so mad, so potentially destructive, and so utterly logical (in a particularly Atwateresquely cynical kind of way) that it just might work.... Not since Catch-22 has there been a novel so brutal in its satire, so lethal in its aim, and so powerfully compelling and caustic in its effect.