by Philip Roth · 1971
A satirical send-up of a Nixon-like president called Tricky Dixon, told through interviews, press conferences, and dialogue: he defends his stance on 'sanctity of human life' while dodging on Vietnam and Cambodia, gets ambushed by advisers deciding whom to blame for domestic unrest, is implicated in the disappearance of baseball player Curt Flood, and is eventually assassinated and sent to Hell, where he runs for office against Satan.