America's Book Club - Christopher Buckley on "The White House Mess"

Christopher Buckley: "While I was, at the white House, I became fascinated by the White House memoirs that everyone, who has worked in the white House for more than ten minutes writes, generally 500 pages, and they have the words power and principle in the title, you know, power, principle and parking. And, anyway, so I became sort of fascinated by this and, it occurred to me to, to write this would be the first the the appearance of humor, this humor that you're so obsessed with. And I thought it would be fun to write a parody of a White House memoir and it's called "The White House Mess"...It starts it came out in 1986. The novel starts on January 20th, 1989, when the new president is pulling up to the white House to escort the outgoing President Reagan to the Capitol for the inaugural ceremony. But it turns out there's a problem. Mr.. Reagan is still in his pajamas, and he just doesn't feel like leaving...in 1986, when the book came out, the the notion of a U.S. president refusing to leave was a quaint notion. That was then."

SUNDAYAmerica's Book Club with Christopher Buckley 6pm ET on CSPAN

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