Taft for president!(Briefly Noted) (Taft 2012) (Brief article) (Book review)

• Author: Suderman, Peter

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In the novel Taft 2012 (Quirk), a man bearing the name, DNA, and girth of America's 27th president is miraculously revived and gains a following in the upcoming election. Author Jason Heller toys with political satire but mostly drafts the former president into a different cause: perpetuating the myth of the Moderate Everyman.

We don't learn much about the revived Taft's policy positions, but what little we do find is incoherent: His one consistent crusade is for regulation of a cheap frozen meat manufacturer, whose products he and the book demonize. But when asked his position on...