The Jolly President: Or Letters George W. Bush Never Read

by Joey Green

This wickedly delightful parody of a children's book cleverly lampoons President Bush, who seems to go happily about the White House with no apparent interest in current events or pressing issues of national security. Inside each pocket page is a fictional piece of mail addressed to the commander-in-chief. The letters, postcards, and greeting cards tucked into the book deliver delicious laughs for the reader. What could be in the letter from Saddam Hussein? What exactly does Osama bin Laden want? What's the good word from Dick Cheney? And why hasn't the president read any of these important messages?

36 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including Not So Normal Norbert with James Patterson, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Contrary to Popular Belief, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, the best-selling Joey Green's Magic Brands series, The Mad Scientist Handbook series, The Zen of Oz, and You Know You've Reached Middle Age If...—to name just a few.

Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.

A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Michael Hooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent coffee table book. One that you can leave out and watch your friends pick up and hold, "Should I open it and look at it?" you can hear them think to themselves. This is book that will just make you chuckle when you read it, the whole 20 minutes it takes to read the book. There are interactive "envelopes" that the reader can pull out "letters" that the president just never got around to reading. This book makes a great gift for any of your Democrat or Liberal friends.

[Shay · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a silly little read. Each page has a short rhyme with a little drawing. Letters can be pulled out and read. If you're not fond of President Bush then you'll probably love this book about his daughters drinking, VP Cheney starting wars to control oil and President Bush happily oblivious to it all.