{"product_id":"dogfight-book-calvin-trillin-9780812993684","title":"Dogfight","description":"In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDogfight \u003c\/i\u003eis a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries Desperately to Make Light of a Bad Cough). With the same barbed wit he displayed in the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eDeciding the Next Decider, Obliviously On He Sails, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Heckuva Job, \u003c\/i\u003e America's deadline poet trains his sights on the Tea Party (These folks were quick to vocally condemn\/All handouts but the ones that went to them) and the slapstick field of contenders for the Republican nomination (Though first-tier candidates were mostly out, \/Republicans were asking, What about\/The second tier or what about the third?\/Has nothing from those other tiers been heard?). There is an ode to Michele Bachmann, sung to the tune of a Beatles classic (Michele, our belle\/Thinks that gays will all be sent to hell) and passages on the exit of candidates like Herman Cain (Although his patter in debates could tickle, \/Cain's pool of knowledge seemed less pool than trickle) and Rick Santorum (The race will miss the purity\/That you alone endow.\/We'll never find another man\/Who's holier than thou.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On its way to the November 6 finale, Trillin's narrative takes us through such highlights as the January caucuses in frigid Iowa (To listen to long speeches is your duty, \/And getting there could freeze off your patootie), the Republican convention (It seemed like Clint, his chair, and their vignette\/Had wandered in from some adjoining set), and Mitt Romney's secretly recorded 47 percent speech, which inspired the I Got the Mitt Thinks I'm a Moocher, a Taker not a Maker, Blues.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49634988654865,"sku":"GOR009226403","price":3.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50055999553809,"sku":"CIN0812993683G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363691106577,"sku":"CIN0812993683VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812993683.jpg?v=1751395692","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/dogfight-book-calvin-trillin-9780812993684","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}