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""Up with democracy! Down with Trump!"" Thus ends the preface to Trump Über Alles: Rhymes for Trying Times. But rather than spewing invective, the book spills over with incisive wit and high humor. As David A. Horowitz, history professor at Portland State University, writes, ""If humor truly is the greatest weapon in times of crisis, David Hedges has provided invaluable assistance to the psychological well-being of the nation with a lighthearted record in verse of the tenure of America's former president."" In the insightful mind of the poet, Trump ""begged and pleaded to be satirized, parodied, and skewered. No character since Shakespeare's Falstaff has been so ripe for ridicule, and so prone to pratfalls. No political figure in American history has boasted such a broad and deep assemblage of unsavory and unscrupulous associates."" A fertile field, indeed! And Hedges plows, tills, sows, and reaps with a deftness honed over more than four decades of writing and publishing poetry, essays, and fiction. Poet and author X.J. Kennedy dubbed his verse ""masterfully crafted,"" and declared, ""I'm a Hedges fan for life.""

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If humor truly is the greatest weapon in times of crisis, David Hedges has provided invaluable assistance to the psychological well-being of the nation with a lighthearted record in verse of the tenure of America's former president. Hedges tells us that the onslaught of avarice and fraud started in the reign of Ronald...and culminated in The Donald. Yet noth- ing of Trump's particular idiosyncrasies escapes the wit of this poet. The portrait describes a leader who is Part P.T. Barnum, part King Kong, given to scowling like a scorned barracu- da, who progresses from defiant to downright deranged. He spends his time golfing while the planet burns, awarding jobs to nincompoops, issuing ranting tweets that scorn law and protocol, proclaiming cures without diseases, and spouting false facts that fall like dominoes while toadies kneel and kiss his feet. The result is a degradation of the democratic experiment into a would-be dictator's rule based on despotism, spite, and malice. -David A. Horowitz, author of America's Political Class Under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War

"If humor truly is the greatest weapon in times of crisis, David Hedges has provided invaluable assistance to the psychological well-being of the nation with a lighthearted record in verse of the tenure of America's former president. Hedges tells us that the onslaught of avarice and fraud ""started in the reign of Ronald...and culminated in The Donald."" Yet noth- ing of Trump's particular idiosyncrasies escapes the wit of this poet. The portrait describes a leader who is ""Part P.T. Barnum, part King Kong,"" given to scowling ""like a scorned barracu- da,"" who progresses ""from defiant to downright deranged."" He spends his time ""golfing while the planet burns,"" awarding jobs to ""nincompoops,"" issuing ranting tweets that ""scorn law and protocol,"" proclaiming ""cures without diseases,"" and spouting false facts that ""fall like dominoes"" while ""toadies kneel and kiss his feet."" The result is a degradation of the democratic experiment into a would-be dictator's rule based on ""despotism, spite, and malice."" -David A. Horowitz, author of America's Political Class Under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War"

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David Hedges has authored eight books, including Petty Frogs on the Potomac (1997), a satirical poke, in rhymed verse, at America's power base; Prospects of Life After Birth: Memoir in Poetry and Prose (2019); The Changer (novel, 2021), and five chapbooks, most recently A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to a Geology Degree (2011). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Measure, Light Quarterly; Light Online (UK), Able Muse, Trinacria, and others. He lives in Oregon City, Oregon, where his pioneer ancestors settled in the mid-1800s.

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