The
topic of a woman becoming the President of the United States is not as new as
one might think. On August 21, 1964 Warner Brothers released a comedy entitled
“Kisses For My President,” which starred Polly Bergen as the Independent Party
Candidate, Leslie McCloud, who won the election to become the first woman
President of the United States. Fred MacMurray played her husband Thad McCloud.
While
Kenneth J. Kerr didn’t mention it, I believe he’d been highly influenced by the
ABC drama series “Commander in Chief” in the 2005-2006 television season in
writing this book. In the series Geena Davis plays the Vice-President,
Mackenzie Allen who ascends to the Presidency when the President, Teddy Bridges,
played by Will Layman, underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor and died. The Attorney General had told Vice President
Allen that if the President should die, the party wants her to step down from
the Presidency and allow the next one in line to assume the role. Naturally she
refuses.
However,
in “The First Madam President (and the dirty bombs), the author has her winning
the election directly. Many of the
episodes in the drama series dealt with the same issues which are contained in
the book; scandal, terrorism, etc.
I
found the pacing of the storyline to be somewhat uneven at times. The dialogue
felt stiff as well as being somewhat unrealistic as to what someone would have
said if this had been a real life event. It is for these reasons I’ve given
this book 3 STARS.
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