SIGNED, On order The House: A Washington Memoir, John Boehner, First Edition, First Printing, with bookplate and coaster

NY: St. Martin's, 2021. SIGNED. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by John Boehner on an unused bookplate. Also includes a promotional coaster. The book is tight and order square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean, unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Color photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.99). Light two-inch crease to the bottom of the back panel near the corner. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 266 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner shares colorful tales from the halls of power, the smoke-filled rooms around the halls of power, and his fabled tour bus.

John Boehner is the last of a breed. At a time when the arbiters of American culture were obsessing over organic kale, cold-pressed juice, and SoulCycle, the man who stood second in line to the presidency was unapologetically smoking Camels, quaffing a glass of red, and hitting the golf course whenever he could.

There could hardly have been a more diametrically opposed figure to represent the opposition party in President Barack Obama's Washington. But when Boehner announced his resignation, President Obama called to tell the outgoing Speaker that he'd miss him. "Mr. President," Boehner replied, "yes you will." He thought of himself as a "regular guy with a big job," and he enjoyed it.

In addition to his own stories of life in the swamp city and of his comeback after getting knocked off the leadership ladder, Boehner offers his impressions of leaders he's met and what made them successes or failures, from Ford and Reagan to Obama, Trump, and Biden. He shares his views on how the Republican Party has become unrecognizable today; the advice -- some harsh, some fatherly -- he dished out to members of his own party, the opposition, the media, and others; and his often acid-tongued comments about his former colleagues. And, of course, he talks about golfing with five presidents.

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