Madame President

Rating:
Summary: Excellent read, better than Tom Clancy on the subject.
Review: All five hundred pages are filled with non-stop action that could be and probably is happening today at the highest levels of our government. This work far surpasses anything Tom Clancy does these days. Make it into a movie, please. I want to see the President kissing her Communications Director. No, seriously, what I mean is the good guys and good gals get married, as it should be.

McCreary takes us inside the head of Madame President and makes us feel what she feels, shed the tears she sheds, and take command when she does. He describes and paints the scene wherever the characters visit, revealing his deep knowledge of small things like horses and farms, as well as all of Asia. His description of the military confrontation is right on the mark. And perhaps we are given insight into why the Chinese have been so very anxious to shape the leadership of our government -- oil and hegemony, rulership over all of the Pacific Rim.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent read, better than Tom Clancy on the subject.
Review: All five hundred pages are filled with non-stop action that could be and probably is happening today at the highest levels of our government. This work far surpasses anything Tom Clancy does these days. Make it into a movie, please. I want to see the President kissing her Communications Director. No, seriously, what I mean is the good guys and good gals get married, as it should be.

McCreary takes us inside the head of Madame President and makes us feel what she feels, shed the tears she sheds, and take command when she does. He describes and paints the scene wherever the characters visit, revealing his deep knowledge of small things like horses and farms, as well as all of Asia. His description of the military confrontation is right on the mark. And perhaps we are given insight into why the Chinese have been so very anxious to shape the leadership of our government -- oil and hegemony, rulership over all of the Pacific Rim.

Rating:
Summary: A fresh and creative political drama
Review: Madame President is a great story with appropriate levels of realism, good descriptions, lively characters, and some new and creative situations centered around the challenges of third party politics and the first female President.

Among the most memorable of the lively characters is Hawkins, the anecdotal southern Senator who starts as one of the President's sexist opponents but eventually crosses both political and gender boarders to ally himself with the woman he comes to respect. Then of course you have the President herself, a Jacquelyn-of-all-trades if you will, who is a strong leader, an honest politician, a gardener and a musician all rolled into one.

The creative and complicated plot centers around a Chinese political power play fueled by some American entrepreneurs hungering for pacific oil. While the international events in Asia are described in a way that suggests first-hand experience, the boardroom discussions within the White House and Department of Defense are just as riveting, exciting, and educational. The political events described by Mr. McCreary were so realistic that I sometimes found myself confused: when I would hear the news on NPR on the way home, I half expected to hear some press release about the events of the Freedom Party, the showdown in the Pacific, or the struggles of the Gray administration. The action scenes are exciting without being contrived, and the technical veracity of the military conflicts is interesting without boring the reader with engineering details as Clancy does.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical novels or political dramas, and who appreciates a story that is both credible and exciting.

Rating:
Summary: A fresh and creative political drama
Review: Madame President is a great story with appropriate levels of realism, good descriptions, lively characters, and some new and creative situations centered around the challenges of third party politics and the first female President.

Among the most memorable of the lively characters is Hawkins, the anecdotal southern Senator who starts as one of the President's sexist opponents but eventually crosses both political and gender boarders to ally himself with the woman he comes to respect. Then of course you have the President herself, a Jacquelyn-of-all-trades if you will, who is a strong leader, an honest politician, a gardener and a musician all rolled into one.

The creative and complicated plot centers around a Chinese political power play fueled by some American entrepreneurs hungering for pacific oil. While the international events in Asia are described in a way that suggests first-hand experience, the boardroom discussions within the White House and Department of Defense are just as riveting, exciting, and educational. The political events described by Mr. McCreary were so realistic that I sometimes found myself confused: when I would hear the news on NPR on the way home, I half expected to hear some press release about the events of the Freedom Party, the showdown in the Pacific, or the struggles of the Gray administration. The action scenes are exciting without being contrived, and the technical veracity of the military conflicts is interesting without boring the reader with engineering details as Clancy does.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical novels or political dramas, and who appreciates a story that is both credible and exciting.