One of the funniest political books I've read. Presidential trivia and antics are laugh out loud funny

One of the funniest political books I have read in quite a while. Even with the humorous slant I learned a lot about presidential elections throughout American history. Highly recommended for anyone who takes elections too seriously.

This is a cute look at American politics and elections with a humorous theoretical twist - that the best looking candidate is always the winner. It's set up as a study that begins because of the author's concerns about the 2016 presidential election, and from there runs throughout the history of American presidential elections.

The theory itself is, actually, an interesting one - particularly given modern political experience - and was what originally drew me to the book. I must confess that I found it to be a little too cutesy for my taste after a while - it read like it was primarily targeted at a high school or younger audience, through the repeated casual language and silly asides/slants. It may have been intended as such, and it wasn't a bad thing, just wasn't to my taste in such repetition. The history was very entertaining (there are a lot of presidents in the early-middle bits of American history about whom I did not know very much) and provided a great overview of political developments since the birth of our Nation though, and I give the author a lot of credit for coming up with a gimmick that has the potential to draw different, unexpected, audiences to this particular avenue of Americana.