I'd Rather be President: A Handbook for Expectant Candidates

New Simon and Schuster. Copyright 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [minor wear to book, light age-tanning to page edges; jacket shows mild wear]. (cartoon drawings) Tongue-in-cheek how-to-run-for-high-office handbook that "charts your course from the inevitable denial that you are a candidate to the polite wire of condolence to your defeated opponent," including such helpful advice as "how to throw your hat into the ring with a forthright statement which, carefully avoiding anything specific, demands justice, honor, thrift, generosity, tolerance, courage, and decency in public affairs -- thus at one stroke indicting any opponent as an unfair, biased, cowardly, stingy, ne'er-do-well of terrible habits." As timely now as it's ever been -- and who better to illustrate this cornucopia of hypocrisy than the wonderful Walt Kelly?