The President's Desk

Did you know that Woodrow Wilson was a transvestite? That Grover Cleveland almost married his own daughter? That the White House was burned to the ground by Herbert Hoover? Or that Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jnr. blew up the El Rancho hotel in Las Vegas as part of the JFK conspiracy? // The President's Desk is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the world's most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I'm leaving out Nixon, obviously). This epic retelling of the history of the United States takes us from its early life as the humble timbers of a barquentine frozen in the waters of the Arctic, through its transformation by decree of Queen Victoria, to over a century in the Oval Office as an eventually antique desk. Written by Shaun Micallef - Australia's answer to Doris Kearns Goodwin (assuming the question was very badly worded) - The President's Desk is a daring nudie run across the political landscape of the world's most beloved super-power.


Genre: General Fiction