Bibliograph

All the presidents' pets, the inside story of one reporter who refused to roll over, Mo Rocca

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Label

All the presidents' pets, the inside story of one reporter who refused to roll over, Mo Rocca

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All the presidents' pets

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mo Rocca

Sub title

the inside story of one reporter who refused to roll over

Summary

A political humorist investigates the influence of presidential pets on Washington's domestic policy-making and international diplomacy, drawing on never-before-seen pet diaries to reveal what goes on in the White House

Table Of Contents

Strangeness on a train -- Some background on how I became Jim Traficant's bitch -- There's something about Harry (and all our other presidents) -- Stepping in Dhue-Dhue -- The karate kid -- Fast times at White House High -- Vanity fair and balanced -- The lair down there -- How the pupniks saved civilization -- The Alien and Sedition Acts, or, How I went to the Outback Steakhouse with Coulter, Crowley, Hannity and Colmes and almost lost my mind -- Federalist smackdown -- Thai me up, Thai me down -- The fox and the pussy -- Helen Thomas underneath it all -- Bird of a nation -- The age of jackass -- First in war, first in peace, first in the field of animal husbandry -- A conspiracy so great -- The dog of war -- Book clubbed -- Vest in show -- Dick Morris's feet -- When good presidential pets go bad -- Eyes wide open -- The great hallucinator? -- The compromise of Helen Thomas -- That's infotainment! -- The chapter that only Jerry Bruckheimer could bring to film -- In which everything ends happily for everyone except the several dozen casualties in chapter 28 -- All the presidents' pets : the next generation -- The presidents and their pets : a selected list

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