Caligula for President
Better American Living Through Tyranny
Wilson, Cintra
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In this inventive and biting satire, acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Cintra Wilson reimagines Americas Manifest Destiny as helmed by Caligula, the only leader in world history capable of turning our floundering democracy into a fully functioningand totally funtyranny, both here and abroad. With Caligula running the show, America will finally be able to achieve what the founding fathers really wanted, but never had the nerve to admit. Like, how to: -Achieve the guilt-free looting of natural resources for the sake of immediate gratification; -Declare war on abstract concepts (drugs, terror, the ocean) for the sake of imperial expansion;-Utilize propaganda, psychological operations, and other prisoner-of-war techniques to create a sense of learned helplessness in the citizenry, gain their utterly terrified trust and obedienceand leave them begging for more;-Rape, pillage, and lootboth here and abroadwith impunity Wilson also traces the historical arc of Caligulas life and not-so-hard times, from his privileged childhood in Syria to his ascent to power to his eventual takedown by the hands of an angry populace, to point out the unsettling parallels between his own extravagant reign and a certain administration, which helped usher in a new golden age of unlimited executive power. Part political parable, part cautionary tale, Caligula for President is an ingenious and hilarious send-up of the current state of our Union by one of this generations sharpest satirists.
AUTHOR BIO
Cintra Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel Colors Insulting to Nature. She is also a pop culture pundit whose column for Salon.com and collection of essays, A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease, have garnered her a cult following. An award-winning playwright and screenwriter, she has seen her work produced by Tim Robbins's Actor's Gang theater company in Los Angeles, Naked Angels in New York, and MTV, where her creation Winter Steele was a long-running segment of Liquid Television. She lives in New York City.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Cintra Wilson [is] the thinking womans David Foster Wallace."New York Times Book Review"The Dorothy Parker of the Cyber Age." San Francisco Chronicle"Wilson cranks out the zingers." People"Hilarious." Harper's Bazaar"A blazing satirist." Booklist
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1596915889
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596915886
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2008024622
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 225
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