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Contributor(s): Schmalfeldt, William M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0974841013     ISBN-13: 9780974841014
Publisher: Dead End Street Publications, LLC
OUR PRICE: $14.24  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2004
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Political
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.00 lbs) 308 pages
 
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With the Vice President's recent death and President DeWitt's health worsening by the day, the precarious balance of power between the Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress has moved to the right. Albert Wantner, the politically shrewd Speaker of the House, will ascend to the Presidency if the ill and elderly President dies before a new "veep" is appointed. For this reason, Wantner plans to delay Congressional approval of any candidate, and the President realizes that he must choose a person so politically pure that the public will clamor for his confirmation and punish Wantner for any delay. Enter Roberto Huerta, a disillusioned first-term, Democtratic congressman from Texas, who recently became American's newest celebrity by rescuing a woman from an assault by Washington street thugs. After some soul searching, Huerta accepts the President's offer, and a bitter - but ultimately successful - bid for Congressional approval takes place. Soon after Huerta is sworn in, the President drops a bombshell in a speech to a joint session of Congress, leaving a frightened and somewhat astonished Huerta struggling to establish a Capra-esque executive branch that is truly directed "...by the people...".
 
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