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Welcome to Washington, Mr. Witherspoon

其他書名	A Novel
出版	Morrow, 1979
ISBN	06880353539780688035358
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A6APAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The time: an August day in 1983, a year before George Orwell's apocalypse. The place: Washington, D. C. A statue, one of hundreds in the nation's capital, suddenly comes alive. So begins this wild, witty, and wonderful novel. The statue is the incarnation of one John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence. His mission: to save the nation from the passions and ambitions of its leaders, who are catapulting America toward a terrible doom. And Witherspoon has his work cut out for him. There is, for instance, Leonard Stuyvesant Todd, President, a lecher advancing toward senility, who cannot focus on the imminent catastrophes besetting the country. Congress is in a similar state. The House of Representatives is concentrating on the issue of the moment: the accusation on the floor of the House by Congressman Wilson Wheeler, who has charged Congressman Daniel Webster Rigg with sleeping with Wheeler's wife. Over at the Pentagon, a middle-aged brigadier general, W. Eugene James, is about to face a court-martial for telling the American public the truth, that the President appears to be going mad. And in the midst of it all, the Russians are mysteriously evacuating their major cities. Only John Witherspoon can save America from Armageddon."--BOOK JACKET.