Ebook {Epub PDF} Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

Boomsday is not a biting satire, but it is entertaining none the less. Mr. Buckley has written more subtle books, but his nuance of Washington life and intrigue is probably uncomfortably spot on. Too often we look at our national leaders as demigods, as opposed to people who lead lives very similar to our own/5().  · Christopher Buckley's Boomsday is based on a wickedly funny idea. With an estimated 77 million baby boomers looking at retirement, the bottom could fall out of the Social Security www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.  · In "Boomsday" Buckley creates a hot, blonde, former military, PR crusader with a predilection for Ayn Rand in Cassandra Devine. During the day she helps her boss cre Let's start by saying this Christopher Buckley is a fucking genius!/5.

Boomsday (), a satirical novel by Christopher Buckley, pivots from Jonathan Swift's classic eighteenth-century satire A Modest www.doorway.rus Swift proposed solving the famine in Ireland by having the poor sell their babies to the wealthy as food, Buckley's characters propose offering older Americans financial incentives to voluntarily commit suicide at seventy-five, before they. Political satirist Christopher Buckley's novel Boomsday features a young blogger who suggests the U.S. government might offer baby boomers tax incentives to kill themselves before retirement age. Boomsday. by. Christopher Buckley. · Rating details · 9, ratings · 1, reviews. Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill.

In addition to being one of Mr. Buckley’s fizziest satires, “Boomsday” marks the debut of Twelve, a new venture that will publish only 12 books a year. After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled-web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy continued. Boomsday (), a satirical novel by Christopher Buckley, pivots from Jonathan Swift’s classic eighteenth-century satire A Modest Proposal. Whereas Swift proposed solving the famine in Ireland by having the poor sell their babies to the wealthy as food, Buckley’s characters propose offering older Americans financial incentives to voluntarily commit suicide at seventy-five, before they become a financial burden on the country.