The People's Choice : a Cautionary Tale by Greenfield, Jeff - 1995

New York, Ny, U. S. A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Few people know the absurdities of American politics better than Jeff Greenfield, ABC News' award-winning political and media analyst, and he's poured them all into one of the funniest, scariest, most plausible what-if novels ever written. When the President-elect dies just two days after his close victory, the universal assumption is that his running mate moves up. After all, isn't that the way the Constitution works? Well, actually - no. Until the electoral college meets in December, nobody has been elected, and with the candidate dead, the electors can indeed vote for the vice-presidential candidate - or they can vote for the other guy, their mothers-in-law, or (cringe) Geraldo Rivera, for that matter. The DJ has minor wear at the top edge. ; Octavo (standard book size); 309 pages .