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All the Presidents' Pets
Mo Rocca
The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over
Three Rivers Press
November 2005
On Sale: October 26, 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1400052262
EAN: 9781400052264
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All the President's Men meets Charlotte's Web
in an explosive political exposé that blows the lid off a
long-held secret in Washington: The Presidents' pets are
more than just furry photo ops.
How much does the
public really know about the role of the
President?
Does the White House Press Corps really
understand it?
Does the President himself have a
clue?
All the Presidents' Pets is the
long-awaited, spine-tingling, muckraking blockbuster from
political and pop culture commentator Mo Rocca—a tour de
force of investigative reporting that for the first time
tells the true story of who really runs America.
From
George Washington's donkey, Royal Gift, and Rutherford B.
Hayes's Siamese cat, Miss Pussy, to Lincoln's goats, Nanny
and Nanko, and John Kennedy's Welsh terrier, Charlie, each
has left an indelible mark on the White House. (In fact,
Eisenhower's Weimaraner, Heidi, did leave a terrible stain
on the Diplomatic Reception Room carpet. She was promptly
exiled to Ike's Gettysburg farm.) In All the Presidents'
Pets, Rocca lays bare the true stories of our nation's
First Pets and sheds light on the origins and evolution of
presidential power.
Rocca plumbs rare sources, with
the assistance of veteran White House correspondent Helen
Thomas (the Stefanie Powers to his Robert Wagner), for the
poop—er, scoop—on what really goes on in the West Wing. Once
Helen reveals her deepest, darkest secret, the story turns
dangerous. Filled with revelations and news breaks—and an
unforgettable cast, including Wolf Blitzer, Ann Coulter,
Sean Hannity, and a terrifying albino named Gephardt (no
relation)—this is yet another story that the complacent
Washington press corps missed.
Forget Paul O'Neill.
Richard Clarke? Who's that? All the Presidents' Pets
is the groundbreaking political book that Bob Woodward could
have written had he just spent a little less time with the
President and a little more time with Barney.
"Some
will consider this satire. Mo Rocca describes how U.S.
political policy has been guided by presidential pets for
more than two hundred years. Oh, and I suppose you have a
better explanation?" —P. J. O'Rourke
"All the
Presidents' Pets is a deeply probing, thoroughly
engaging account about how the media has uniformly
overlooked the White House pet phenomenon to the detriment
of our national memory. Thanks to Mo Rocca, no serious
political commentator can properly analyze the Bush
Administration without taking into consideration ‘The Barney
Factor.' And, for good measure, he has broken the story of
Helen Thomas's lair, a cosmic revelation that will force
historians to reinterpret presidencies dating as far back as
James Garfield's tenure."—Douglas Brinkley, Professor of
History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American
Studies, University of New Orleans
"A freaky,
phantasmagoric trip through the secret history of
presidential pets."—Robert Siegel, former editor in chief of
The Onion
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