10 best classic political novels

4. Wag the Dog, by Larry Beinhart

Wag the Dog, by Larry Beinhart, Nation Books, 392 pp.

Originally published as "American Hero," Wag the Dog is a satire and conspiracy novel about Operation Desert Storm, positing that the whole thing was engineered to get George Bush reelected. At first ludicrous and then startling, this novel paints the Gulf War as a made-for-TV piece of Americana propaganda in an attempt to call attention to the power of the media.

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