Dimensions
132 x 200 x 27mm
The setting: Washington, Hollywood and the landscape of the American Republic.
The stars: Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W Bush, Al Gore, John McCain, Ken Starr and Monica Lewinsky.
The supporting players: Warren Beatty, James Carville, Sharon Stone, Larry Flynt, Vernon Jordan, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge and Bob Packwood (with cameos by Richard Nixon and Farrah Fawcett, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Geffen, Robert Evans and Richard Gere).
The story: The most basic, and basest, in many years: an up-close and personal look at the people who run the United States of America. A tale filled with humour, tragedy and romance; suspense, absurdity and high drama; and, of course, lots and lots of sex.
'American Rhapsody' is a brilliant, unnerving, hugely entertaining look at American political culture, and its heroes and villains. It's a book that flouts virtually every rule, yet joins a rich journalistic tradition distinguished by such writers as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe.
As hilarious, troubling and provoking as the protagonists themselves, 'American Rhapsody' reveals a penetrating and devastating panorama of Washington and Hollywood, and the morals, hypocrisies and desires of their inhabitants.
