...You don't have to get all the references to join the fun—I'm proud to say I got most of them!—but the more you recognize, the more satisfying it is." Bill Press, radio and TV commentator, host, The Bill Press Show
"Nick & Jake is an hysterical stroll through the cold war era with many of the most colorful characters of that time. Readers of a certain age will recall with more than a touch of nostalgia a time when personal relations mattered more than institutional ties, and younger readers will conclude that their parents and grandparents may not have been such fuddy-duddies after all. It is a wonderful tale of expatriates dabbling in big power intrigue without ever forsaking the three-martini lunch." Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, diplomat and presidential advisor
"Fitzgerald and Hemingway, hold onto your iconic backsides. Tad and Jonathan Richards have rewritten both you and the mid-Twentieth Century with now hilarious, now poignant, ever fascinating effect. History and literature will never be quite the same." Roger Morris, former National Security Council staffer, historian and presidential biographer
"What a hoot! A visit to the surreality of 1953: from McCarthy and Christine Jorgensen to Allen Dulles, the Deux Magots cafe, Saigon, Iran, Pete Seeger and Thelonious Monk! This is a hilarious—and frequently painful—visit to the time. Thank you!" Jim Guy Tucker, former governor of Arkansas
"A wonderful dip in alternative history. Just a little more real than reality." Larry Beinhart, author, Wag the Dog
"An engaging excursion down the rabbit hole into Literaryland and the Fearful Fifties. Lewis Carroll could have written it, but he may not have been able to handle the sex scenes." Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist |