The author, Ken Baker, is the West Coast Executive Editor of Us Weekly Magazine. He is a critically acclaimed author of two previous books. His current book, "Hollywood Hussein" promises to be an International Best Seller. HOLLYWOOD HUSSEIN tells the story of how George W. Bush and his White House advisers secretly employed a celebrity magazine editor and his team of scrappy paparazzi to “capture” Saddam Hussein on December 13, 2003. The plot twist is so amusingly plausible that it should give readers legitimate cause to doubt whether previously published accounts of Saddam Hussein’s capture in a “spider hole” south of Tikrit, Iraq, were true or just a U.S.-manufactured propaganda stunt. The story leaves readers laughing all the way to the voting booth. HOLLYWOOD HUSSEIN is a ripped-from-the-headlines political tale in the spirit of Primary Colors. The Bush White House in HOLLYWOOD HUSSEIN is one that uses newsstand sales of weekly celebrity rags – rather than opinion polls – to gauge public opinion; that is beset by petty personality clashes among advisers; that hires a sexy hotel heiress as its press secretary; that trusts the Hollywood paparazzi more than U.S. special forces; that is run by an ADD-plagued Texan who’s more interested in jogging than discussing public policy; and that employs the nation’s reality-TV craze in its foreign policy efforts. The result is a critically amusing portrait of two of the nation’s most powerful institutions: the popular media and presidential politics. Told through the first-person accounts of those who conspired to pull off “Operation Hollywood,” the story is told in the imaginary words of a diverse cast of both fictional and real-life characters, including George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Arnold Schwarzenegger, reality TV producer Mark Burton, “professional celebrity” London Marriott, and last but not least Saddam Hussein himself. |
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