Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington
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Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington by Hart Seely
Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too? America's pundit poet laureate, the man who channeled the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Phil Rizzuto, now offers the perfect metaphor for the inside-the-beltway bubble: it's a nursery. Using the beneficent spirit of Mother Goose, he has fashioned hilarious nursery rhymes hidden amid the photo ops and filibustering. John Kerry backed Iraq, John Kerry took it back, making him a very airy, wary hara-kiri. Bill Bennett, independent, Kept a hidden secret muse. He would clutch his lucky pendant, Praying, 'Papa needs new shoes ' As for Iraq, When you lose, you lose, and when you win, you win, and when you can't tell win from lose, best stop the war you're in. No one is safe from Seely's wicked muse: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, virtually every news anchor, and a good portion of the Hollywood elite are skewered unforgettably by Seely's Mother Goosequills in this irreverent and hilarious collection.
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Hart Seely is an award-winning reporter for the Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse. His humor pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Lampoon, The New Republic, Village Voice, Slate, Spy and NPR. He has written or edited five books, including O Holy Cow: The Selected Verses of Phil Rizzuto and Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. Seely lives in Syracuse with his wife, Janice, and three children. There, from his living room, he wins baseball games for the New York Yankees.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781439167212 |
| ISBN 10 | 1439167214 |
| Title | Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington |
| Author | Hart Seely |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2009-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 148 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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