Lady President

By Xavier Joseph Carbajal

Synopsis: As the United States struggles to save the lives of thousands in the Middle East, a handful of FBI agents are conspire to bring down the administration of President Marie Arcola, the first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965450708
• ISBN13: 9780965450706
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: New Future Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Wow! Lady President was a great story!

My daughter had to do a school paper about the upcoming Presidential Election and she brought home a copy of Lady President. I became curious and started reading the book. This is a really clever story. The idea of a woman president like President Marie Arcola and an accident in Iran was believable and the plot and subplots were energized. I read alot of Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and all the big New York Times Best Sellers. I have to admit, Lady President is up there with the best. My wife saw the author on a talk show interview on Channel 12 News when he was in New York. She was impressed with his ideas about Elizbeth Dole and the possibility of her becoming president or vice president, but she didn't get the book. Now her whole book club wants Lady president.

Lady President is like a sad Cinderella Story....

But. Let's think about this journey Marie Arcola now takes as the first woman President of the United States of America. This was a page turning, intrguing story with more believable plot twists than a Tom Clancy/Danielle Steel or John Grisham novel. Lady President may very well be taking the direction of Jenkins/LeHaye's Assassins-The Left Behind series. Now, we have President Marie Arcola in the White House. A secret militia and an underworld government is trying to stop her because she is the final sign.They took her first two babies. Do they want her next one? How connected is the Vatican to the abortion laws she passed? What is Senator Michelle Harding up to? When you get this book, read between the lines-our millienium calendar is much different from other religions. Wait until those prophets rise from the East and remember-some of your babies may be facing the war she is trying to prevent.

Do not take this book lightly!

Prepare yourself, if you are about to read Lady President. The Author, Xavier Joseph Carbajal, has given us a ghastly testament of the future of Amrica, once we have a woman president. The stereotypes, prejudice and disgrace by male politicians toward President Marie Arcola, was presented several times throughout this story in an entertaining and powerful manner. The squabbling soap opera characters played off of each other like Othello and Hamlet, showing how the back room decision making by politcians has the world walking the tightrope of extinction. The paranoia, fear and anger played out by Sneator Trevor Thomas, Agent Naughton, the Chiefs of Staff and several other players in Lady President, added heart pounding subplots and scenarios. A friend of mine, who is a professor at Harvard, told me to read Lady President, and I am glad I took his advice. The theories of the Chinses and Iranian government added a stark reality to this story, as did the ghastly consequences of a possible biological and chemical weapons disaster, like the incident at the factory in Iran. The concern in America with gun control, abortion laws and future riots is a daring look at the reality of our country. Now, in the news, Elizabeth Dole is running for president. How will other countries treat her or other American women presidents? READ THIS BOOK!!! It looks like the author has set us up for a sequel. Kate.

A dark tale of America in many ways

When I read reviews about Lady President in several major newspapers, I naturally became curious and picked up a copy. I just feel the need to help out some of these 'so-called' book reviewers. Most of the reviews were written by men and judging from their comments, they just skimmed through this great story. This book is filled with soulful characters: Joey Adair, Benny, Rockys Vampyres and Terry, the soldier who left his drug infested neighborhood and now has to deliver a soldier to his death to keep a war from killing thousands. Some of the reviews said President Marie Arcola didn't participate or have the ability to make the final decision that she made. What? First of all she was once a captain in Desert Storm, a lawyer, a senator, a vice-president and now president. Read the last conversation she has with Joey(p.217). Feel the strength in this moment. Think about what kind of person it takes to fill those shoes. She is not going to babble on like some hysterical woman. Read the book again!!! She studies everything and everyone; the senators arguing, the Chiefs of Staff not giving her the right information and that sneaky FBI agent, Agent Naughton. All of them trashing her and saying she can't do this job, just because she is a woman. I think just because she had a speech problem, that was no reason to say she was a flawed character. Look at Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, his book was great and his characters had different ways of speaking. President Arcola is also a very smart individual. She makes up her mind and she takes full responsibilty and she gives this story action. Well, of course you fellas liked Senator Trevor Thomas. He had money, beautiful women, expensive clothes and yes, I admit, he rocked and ruled the Senate floor. But when he matched wits against President Marie Arcola, he backed away like a puppy dog. This book was great and I am very surprised a man wrote it.

Very impressive and thoughtful

I'm glad I flipped through and read the first couple of pages of Lady President; the dustjacket synopsis did little for this exceptional story. What makes Lady President such a good book is the straight forward style of the authors writing. Mr. Carbajal writes about the senselessness of war and the way he describes future battles is painted with dark, haunting prose. Here the author talks about the future of politics. Will there be bickering amongst politicians when we finally have a woman president and there is a major crisis? A colleague of mine tried to dismiss the true meaning behind the factory and the symbolism it played in this story. But President Marie Arcola was cunning and focused. The way her character always knew she was being tested by the male dominated Senate and the other countries was well written. The fact that she had a speech problem and a hearing problem was also used with skillful thought by this author. Mr. Carbajal seems to know women from both sides of the coin. He also seems to be able to create heroes out of the most unlikely characters. Each of his female, and male, characters are different. Senator James, Senator Michelle Harding, Lauren, Tanya, Mr. Michael Kenny and Fred the ex-FBI agent are all minor characters of Lady President who take us back a second to give us a look at what is going on in this story. It is very rare to find daring writing like this nowadays. Mr. Carbajal approaches Lady President the way John Grishim writes about lawyers and Tom Clancy writes about international terrorism. I also see a bit of Gore Vidal and Truman Capote in this authors style. Although some of the other reviews from the televison and newspapers about this novel were flat, Lady President is going to be the kind of book to reemerge over again in essays and term papers with its controversial ideas. It looks like Mr. Carbajal is planning a sequel to Lady President. He took this step into the 'no girls allowed zone' with good intentions. One can only imagine what is his next move, now that he is the first author ever to put a woman in the White House as the first woman President of the United States. Just in time for the new millenium.