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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful and strident rant by Caligula seeking to replace a Bush-style administration with tyranny. <br/>&quot;Please evacuate the public arena so something interesting can happen.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Ryan Seacrest, because of his startling inability to ever look sincere saying anything, sha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67109503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Cintra Wilson; I may have mentioned this before. <br/><br/>Her writing is hilarious and sort of gruesome, which lends itself well to an examination of the colossal fuckup that we Americans now find ourselves in the middle of.<br/><br/>The only thing is that it seems to have been published...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63482387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you thought the National Security State couldn't laugh at itself, read this fabulous book.  Let your uncertainty and fear mingle with thie outrageously funny satire.<br/><br/>Kelly]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it.  Laughed at the despairing truth of it all.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this inventive and biting satire, acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Cintra Wilson reimagines America&#8217;s Manifest Destiny as helmed by Caligula, the only leader in world history capable of turning our floundering democracy into a fully functioning&#8212;and totally fun&#8212;tyranny, both here and abroad. With Caligula running the show, America will finally be able to achieve what the founding fathers really wanted, but never had the nerve to admit. Like, how to: </p><p>-Achieve the guilt-free looting of natural resources for the sake of immediate gratification; </p><p>-Declare war on abstract concepts (drugs, terror, the ocean) for the sake of imperial expansion;</p><p>-Utilize propaganda, psychological operations, and other prisoner-of-war techniques to create a sense of learned helplessness in the citizenry, gain their utterly terrified trust and obedience&#8212;and leave them begging for more;</p><p>-Rape, pillage, and loot&#8212;both here and abroad&#8212;with impunity  </p><p>Wilson also traces the historical arc of Caligula&#8217;s life and not-so-hard times, from his privileged childhood in Syria to his ascent to power to his eventual takedown by the hands of an angry populace, to point out the unsettling parallels between his own extravagant reign and a certain administration, which helped usher in a new golden age of unlimited executive power.  Part political parable, part cautionary tale, <em>Caligula for President</em> is an ingenious and hilarious send-up of the current state of our Union by one of this generation&#8217;s sharpest satirists. </p>]]>
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