Boomsday - by Christopher Buckley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A charismatic 29-year-old blogger incites massive political turmoil when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of her outraged peers and an ambitious Senator.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the presidency." With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called "transitioning") all the way to the White House, over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christopher Buckley</b> was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of <i>Forbes FYI</i> magazine (now <i>ForbesLife</i>), where he is now editor-at-large. <p/> He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: <i>Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir</i> and <i>Thank You For Smoking</i>, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named <i>New York Times</i> Notable Books of the Year. <p/> He has written for the <i>New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal</i>, the <i>New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine</i>, the <i>Washington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast</i>, and other publications. <p/> He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.
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