the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court who gave to George W. Bush winning the presidential election of 2000, the New York Times Magazine comes out with a hilarious fantastoria the presidency was not a story of how the story might go if the occupant of the White House was the former Bill Clinton's deputy.
The idea is anything but original: a "Flog", a blog fictionary , built on this theme and surprisingly anonymous titled "The Gore Years" , was put online in 2006.
And above all, less than a year ago Newsweek offered a first version of that game, and has entrusted to three different signatures (among which that of Christopher Hitchens ).
What is now the NYT in May proposing is in fact a repeat of the same idea, but in a much more dense and complicated as the eight years of the dual mandate of the President of imagery are broken into six segments, each of which is assigned to a different author. The first signature, which is touched engage in the narration of how President Gore addresses the "his" Eleven in September, is the eclectic writer Kurt Andersen not new to the genre of historical novel ; quite similar to the curriculum of the college Kevin Baker signing the second episode, which focuses on the war in Afghanistan, much less obvious - and less politically correct - the signature of third chapter, dedicated to the re-election, which belongs to Glenn Beck , cheeky tribune of the infamous Fox News and reference point of the movement of television Tea Party, who with treachery for which imagines that it is known in the second term of Bill's former deputy to take Hillary as a vice; next chapter in the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley tells of an assassination attempt on the President manages to escape; follows the story of the final phase of the Presidency and failure of the election campaign for the succession (Mitt Romney against John Edwards), signed by the novelist, essayist, screenwriter and literary critic Walter Kim , and finally, the author who started the story concludes , imagining the dawn of a Romney presidency in the shadow of the poor whose popularity Gore left the stage quite battered.
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