Taft 2012 A Novel

He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hittingRepublican résumé. Liberals love his passion for peaceful diplomacy. The mediacan't get enough of his larger-than-life personality. Regular folks can identify withhis larger-than-life physique. And all the American people love the fact that he's anhonest, hard-working man who tells it like it is.There's just one problem. He is William Howard Taft... and he was alreadypresident a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well andconsidering a running mate in 2012?A most extraordinary political fable, Jason Heller's unforgettable debut novelfollows the strange second life of Taft, the gentle giant who never wanted to bepresident in the first place, as he tries to survive the hyperactive tempest of21st-century politics.

Jason Heller is an American culture journalist whose work appears in The A.V. Club, Village Voice Media, Alternative Press, Tor.com, Weird Tales. Taft 2012 is his first novel. He lives in Denver, Colorado.