Short List - One-eyed Mack Author:Jim Lehrer When Oklahoma governor Buffalo Joe Hayman sets off to give the Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention in New York City, he feels the sun of national prominence shining on his face. As luck would have it, his faithful lieutenant governor, The One-Eyed Mack, is the one who gets the tan, when, at the last minute, Hayman is felled by ... more »a stroke and Mack steps in to give the speech, to resounding acclaim.
Catapulted instantly onto the Short List of possible vice-presidential running mates, Mack becomes the center of attention overnight: interviewed, analyzed, advised, exalted, debriefed and debunked by a whirlwind succession of political consultants, party elders, Top Aids, television commentators, columnists and investigative reporters, all to astonishing results.« less