Books
April, 1986
The White House Mess (Knopf), by Christopher Buckley, is one of the funniest books ever written about the mess called Washington, D.C. Set in the near future, The White House Mess purports to be the memoirs of Herbert Wadlough, a snob if there ever was one and a former member of President Thomas Nelson Tucker's Administration. That was the Administration that invaded Bermuda in 1992, remember? Wadlough was involved in that fracas, and it was he who allowed himself to be gassed with GB-322 on the...