Harry Beltway, idealistic young conservative and grandson of a famous television evangelist, has just come back from a two-year tour as a missionary when he is persuaded to join the campaign staff of Mike Duncannon. The candidate is an arch-conservative television commentator who has set his sights on the Republican nomination for president so that he can build a barbed-wire fence all around America. For Harry - and the reader - the experience of managing Duncannon's campaign is an education in right-wing extremism, ...
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Harry Beltway, idealistic young conservative and grandson of a famous television evangelist, has just come back from a two-year tour as a missionary when he is persuaded to join the campaign staff of Mike Duncannon. The candidate is an arch-conservative television commentator who has set his sights on the Republican nomination for president so that he can build a barbed-wire fence all around America. For Harry - and the reader - the experience of managing Duncannon's campaign is an education in right-wing extremism, isolationist chutzpah, and fundamental dysfunction. Daily, he must interact with Day Duncannon, the candidate's powerful cousin and campaign manager, and Sherry, the candidate's Stepford wife, who spends her days clipping recipes and knitting sweaters for fetuses in jars. As a candidate, Duncannon wows conservative fundamentalist Americans with his promises to protect them from Zulus and wetbacks and his reassurances that school prayer will someday return and abortionists will disappear. Lock and load is one of the candidate's most popular solutions to complex social and economic problems. Yet Harry must run interference when Duncannon's campaign starts to fall apart after accusations of campaign bullying (Duncannon's brothers are harassing and beating up his opponents), sexual misconduct (Duncannon is discovered having semi-weekly rendezvous with a mysterious blonde), and devil worship (Duncannon is caught channeling the spirit of the late Richard Nixon, his former boss). And along the way, Harry starts a confusing love affair with a fellow campaign worker that turns out to be, literally, a drag.
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