X-Pres.

I've found the perfect book to fill Josh's alternate history novel fetish.

It's called The X-President and this is the set up:
It's 2055. President Clinton is still alive and is a spry 109 year old. This dude named Sal is trying to write the definitive bio of the ex-Pres but is having a hard time, what with World War III going on and stuff. I'm not sure why (research? commitment to writing? to save the known universe?) but Sal travels back to the '60s and chills with 16 year old Bill. And that's it. That's what I know about this most-excellent sounding novel.

My hope: that Sal goes back in time to 1996, plants some micro-spycams in the Oval Office and gets to witness some hot cigar action with the Lewinsky. Oh and that author Philip Baruth will write said scene with an attention to detail that would make Brett Easton Ellis blush.

UPDATE: It appears, upon further reading, that Sal is forced to time-travel at the directive of Carville. This seems very fitting as Carville strikes me as the type to force time travel upon an unsuspecting biographer.
Also illuminating: Warren Jakes of Chapel Hill, NC posted his thoughts on the book at amazon.com. He said that if he was forced to write a blurb for the book jacket, his blurb would go like this: "Dave Barry meets Stephen Ambrose and beats the crap out of him."
Well done, sir. Well done.

(Link via The Pinocchio Theory.)