{"product_id":"run-robbie-run-jon-pepper-9798991111577","title":"Run Robbie Run","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRUN ROBBIE RUN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a wickedly funny political satire about what happens when a party's winning formula expires-and the professionals paid to manage reality decide it's easier to fake it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the convention weeks away, former President Dewey Fenwick should be torching his opponent. Instead, his campaign is working a different kind of miracle: keeping Dewey upright, camera-ready, and just coherent enough for friendly coverage to insist he's \"at the top of his game.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the scenes, veteran fixer Ned Witherspoon and a desperately overqualified intern scramble to keep the nominee-and the narrative-from collapsing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dewey's situation becomes untenable, the party pivots to a new solution: L. Robertson \"Robbie\" Crowe III, billionaire heir, failed executive, and walking blank screen. To the strategists, Robbie is ideal-famous enough to sell, vague enough to shape, and unburdened by inconvenient convictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobbie is handed a running mate who instantly becomes his infatuation: Evita Manolo, the glamorous \"Socialist Sensation.\" Together they are to sell a platform that's equal parts utopian branding and velvet-glove control: a \"voluntary\" rewards program that scores citizens for good behavior, penalizes them for bad, and quietly determines who gets a job, a mortgage, and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast, bawdy, and uncomfortably familiar, Run Robbie Run skewers campaign politics, media groupthink, and the fine art of pretending everything's fine-right up until it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eVeep\u003c\/em\u003e-style political workplace comedy; sharp, inside-baseball satire; and Orwell-tinged plausibility where the scariest part of a \"voluntary\" system is what it quietly makes mandatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Pepper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991111577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Cove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Jon Pepper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801639268607,"sku":"9798991111577","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/run-robbie-run-jon-pepper-9798991111577","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}