Jim Yoakum

The time? Tomorrow. Can the President of the United Red States of America, and the President of the United Blue States of America, come together in order stop a giant asteroid before it destroys Earth in one month's time? Who is the mysterious Doctor Apophis? What is the "S. U. R.", and why is the President of the USA determined to defend it at all costs? What the hell is the Canadian army doing in North Dakota, and why does HRH Queen Kate of England want to wage war with the USA? And what is... "The Myoshi Effect"?

1923: Faced with impending personal and political scandals (corrupt cabinet members, drinking, gambling, failing health made worse by a quack physician, blackmailers attempting to exploit his numerous affairs and bastard children, murders and suicides), President Warren G. Harding embarks on a cross-country train trip, from Washington D. C. to Alaska, in an effort to rehabilitate his chances for re-election--something he is unsure he even wants. But the GOP have lost faith in Warren. However, they have taken a liking to the idea of running the first-ever female president: Florence, his smart, and ambitious wife. After all, it had been Florence who had spearheaded the innovations that not only got Warren elected in 1920, but which are still used today: the creation of solicitation-telephone calls, celebrity endorsements, photo-ops, news reels, radio ads, direct marketing... And it was Florence who is both the brains of the outfit, and the star of this show. Harding is simply the handsome, good natured, overly-trusting, face. Based on the true, last (and unbelievably bizarre) six months in the life of America's 29th President, THE BLOVIATOR tells the story of sex, drugs, scandals, blackmail, murder, suicides--and the presidency. THE BLOVIATOR is a "fiction fueled by fact" in that while some elements are constructions, they are well with-in the plausible, and probable, range of the facts. THE BLOVIATOR is an epic; a massive and sprawling work; history as absurdity, as if it were being filtered through a cracked prism--but the prism is not cracked. Most of the story told here is unbelievably, incredibly, based on true events.

The behind-the-scenes story of how the Monty Python television series was written, and created, authored by the US Curator of the Graham Chapman Archives. This book, unlike any other about the team or series, explodes some age-old myths; clear-up some age-old debates, and give a rare insight into the making of a team and a series. This book gives the reader knowledge about much previously unknown information, and trivia - much that didn't appear in even the Python's own book of the troupe. Monty Python Vs The World is the definitive written history of how the Pythons came together, created a TV series that changed comedy forever, and then (accidentally) changed the world.