If P.G. wodehouse had gone to Washington, dc, and worked for George Bush, "this is the book he would have written," declares the dust-jacket of "Speech-less". And it is true that the book's author, a former speechwriter called Matt Latimer, writes well and is sometimes amusing too. But whereas Wodehouse's wit was gentle and warm, Mr Latimer empties buckets of bile on almost everyone he has ever met or worked with.
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