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Title: One To Return To
Review: One of Buckley's earlier efforts, The White House Mess is a slight, inconsequential book, good more for chuckles than the guffaws some of the writer's later books induce. Still, I find myself pulling it off the shelf every now and then just to pass some time.It's easy to dip in and out of Buckley's imaginary White House, a goofy place more akin to "That's My Bush!" than "The West Wing." Putting a Democratic governor of Idaho (!) in the White House after the 1988 election, Buckley leads the reader through the most inept administration in modern political history, while also casting light on the petty maneuverings of those aides clamoring to be close to the crown, however tarnished.
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