Bøger af Carey Winfrey

Hail to the Chief--a political thrill ride as current as today's headlines. President-elect Maggie Mathews--the first woman voted into the nation's highest office--is felled by a ruptured brain aneurysm just 10 days before her inauguration. While she lies in a coma, her vice president-elect attempts to conceal his past, and with help from chief of staff Bruce "Skeeter" Jamison, he gambles he can keep his dark secret from coming to light. But Maggie's husband, the former secretary of state who schemes to seize the reins of power for himself, has other ideas.

"The '50s," says Brendan Gill, "have begun to fade at an alarming rate, and it isn't a moment too soon for Carey Winfrey, who grew up in them, to tell us what they were like for him and his contemporaries. He writes with candor, wit, and ruefulness about the ignominy of boyhood and young manhood, in a charming book that is a celebration of life as well as an irresistible memoir of a single life." Adds David Halberstam: "An exceptional and often wondrous coming of age...in a marvelous world of racetracks and military acadamies."