'What Would Happen If The President of the USA Went Stark Raving Mad?'
Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Jack Knebel, son of , to discuss '', his late father's prescient novel. This has just been republished by Vintage Books. "A president who rages in private about conspiracies against him by the news media and his political opponents. A controversial alliance with a ruthless Russian leader. A key Supreme Court justice named Kavanaugh." "Well, in the justice’s name is spelled “Cavanaugh,” but close enough." "The political thriller, a best-seller when it was published in 1965 but long out of print, has enough eerie parallels with today’s political debate that it has gained new attention from and others." "Vintage Books is reissuing the novel as an e-book, an audiobook and a paperback wrapped in a stark, black-and-white overwrap that asks: “WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A. WENT STARK-RAVING MAD?” "That was the tagline for the original book. The story by the late journalist Fletcher Knebel wrestles with the debate, never fully resolved, over how the nation’s political system can and should respond if there are suspicions that a commander in chief has become mentally incapacitated." [, by Susan Page | USA Today]