Title: A libertarian fantasy
Product review: This work is a tragedy, especially as the concept of a fictional hyper-libertarian president would be a good one-if it was applied realistically.Smith creates a president who accomplishes most of his goals in an unrealistically breezy manner, as another reviewer put it, and whose opponents (i.e. politicians in the major parties and in the Libertarian Party) are portrayed as unrealistic strawmen.In real life, a hyper-libertarian president, especially one who came to power by a series of chance circumstances the way that the titular character did, wouldn't be taken very seriously by Congress or the people, could very well diminish the power of the veto by overusing it (like Andrew Johnson) and would be highly unlikely to last more than one term.As the novel is nothing more than a propaganda piece for Smith's views with little literary value, the implausibility of its premise utterly ruins it.
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