An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore

by Eric M. Hamilton

“It’s almost too funny!” On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time... Newly elected President Al Gore is given a mysterious device that allows his mind to travel back in time and relive his presidency. He needs it, too! There is always some disaster forcing him to start over. Soon, the time-traveling President begins to suspect there’s more going on with this device than he first suspected. Read the hilarious story of the President that never was, and discover why history turned out different. “I started reading and couldn't stop! What a clever story!”

104 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2016

Reviews

[Onionboy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun story. It was campy enough to work. At times it veered closely to going over the line into the silly and ridiculous, but always managed to stay on the right side.

You might not enjoy this if you aren't familiar with the facts surrounding the Clinton/Gore presidency, the following campaign and historically messy election, and the Bush presidency. The author lists all the facts you need to know at the end, but the book would lose its charm if you are not up on those already.

I thought all the author's political jabs were fair and deserved, as well as very funny. But if you are an overly sensitive conservative (and if you got upset that I said it, that's how you would know that you are) then you will likely be very triggered and offended by this book and probably try to have it banned. Better to just stay away, if you were even considering reading in the first place. It wasn't published by Fox News.

[Frederick Heimbach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just the right length for the subject. A novella about the 1000 presidencies of Al Gore, with apologies to Groundhog Day. If you're old enough, you'll get all the jokes. If not, an appendix of historical references is provided. A good, breezy, funny read.

[Hans G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Election day becomes Groundhog Day in this entertaining alternate history in which President Gore gets to relive his presidency over and over again until he finds some way to break the cycle.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. The multiverse is ever present in the book and at its center is Al Gore. It is sprinkled with realism but is very sci-fi themed. It starts out a little slow as they trek across country to the capitol region, but picks up quickly since it is a novella. Even at the start it is intriguing enough to stick with it. It is a fun to read about the various scenarios that made him start over from winning the election and how he had to learn to be bad at campaigning. The read can be done in a lazy afternoon

[cool breeze · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cheap shot political trash. It has an interesting premise but, as the story unfolds, it turns out to be employed mainly to take cheap shots at conservative politicians and flatter liberal ones.