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Condizione: good, very good. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 249, pencil notations and underlining on several pages. Foreword by Erma Bombeck. Mo Udall's humor has a serious side, deflating pretentiousness while getting the job done.
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Condizione: very good, very good. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 249, photograph of Rep. Udall with identified woman taped to flyleaf. Foreword by Erma Bombeck. Mo Udall's humor has a serious side, deflating pretentiousness while getting the job done.
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Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 249 pages. Foreword by Erma Bombeck. Inscribed by the author (Mo Udall). Morris King "Mo" Udall (June 15, 1922 - December 12, 1998) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1…961 to May 4, 1991. A former professional basketball player with the Denver Nuggets during their National Basketball League period, noted for his liberal views, Udall was a tall (6'5"), Lincolnesque figure with a self-deprecating wit and easy manner. Because of his wit, columnist James J. Kilpatrick deemed him "too funny to be president", which also ended up being the title of his autobiography in the 1980s. Udall earned a law degree from the University of Arizona in 1949. In 1961, his brother Stewart Udall, the congressman for Arizona's 2nd congressional district, was appointed Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy administration. Udall won a special election for his brother's vacant seat by only 2,000 votes. He won the seat in his own right in 1962, and was reelected 13 more times. He only faced one close race, in 1978, when he received 52 percent of the vote. In 1976, he ran for the Democratic nomination for President as a liberal alternative to Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia. Mo Udall's humor has a serious side, deflating pretentiousness while getting the job done. "With a bumper crop of presidential candidates surfacing, I have concluded that a plague of presidentialitis has swept the nation. Speaking from experience, I must remind all these worthy contenders that once this dreaded disease- whose symptoms include delusions of grandeur and an urge to make repeated visits to Iowa- gets into a man's bloodstream, it can only be cured by embalming fluid." -Mo Udall. Morris "Mo" Udall, Arizona's Democratic congressman for thirty years, was as well known for his sense of humor as for his dedication to environmental causes. And it was during his 1976 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, when he claims he drew more laughter than votes, that James K. Kilpatrick pronounced him "too funny to be president." Udall kept four black notebooks of jokes that he had collected throughout his public life. Some he heard in the courtroom or on the floor of the House; others he found in old speeches and newspaper articles; still others he swiped on the rubber-chicken circuit. This book, a memoir of Udall's career, collects many of those jokes to create a citizen's guide to the lighter side of politics." After due deliberation and two stiff drinks," Udall writes, "I decided to go ahead and write this book because I'm convinced that humor is as necessary to the health of our political discourse as it is in our private lives." Too Funny To Be President is a testament to the Udall spirit-and an example to all who would win the public's heart.
