Jake for Mayor Lou Aguilar 9781942756682 Books
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Ken Miller is having a bad run of luck. After torpedoing his career as a campaign manager, he drives through tiny Erie, Colorado, when a homeless beagle named Jake causes a series of mishaps that lands him in jail. Ken is granted bail on two conditions that he not leave town before his trial in three weeks and—much to his chagrin—that he not let Jake out of his sight until then. Stuck in Erie as it prepares for a mayoral election, he’s drawn into the local politics by a waitress who vehemently opposes incumbent Charles Dunbar, the only candidate on the ticket.
Unable to resist political adventure, Ken gets a brainstorm. If he can exploit the dog’s popularity among the townspeople and get them to elect Jake as a protest candidate, the publicity will put him back on top. But things don’t go exactly as planned. Ken warms to the dog, falls for the waitress, and employs her teenage son and his gang as campaign aides in a madcap battle with Mayor Dunbar … who has no intention of losing to a dog.
Jake for Mayor Lou Aguilar 9781942756682 Books
In the spirit of full disclosure, I own a beagle, and this book is perfect for me, so I may be a bit prejudice (I’ve read "Shiloh" and watched the movies several times). That said, this is not a children’s book about a beagle, but about Ken Miller, a failing campaign manager and lost soul in the political arena (or is that redundant?) yearning for redemption.Ken is purposely sleazy with his deals, and free with sexual innuendos toward women, which he thinks is charming. Despite these flaws, he’s likable, and you root for him to “see the light”. There is a Capraesque underdog plot (pun), although Capra’s protagonists are the courageous common man versus the Establishment, and Ken’s journey is to transform into the do-gooder.
The reading is breezy, engaging, and humorous, and I found it hard to put down. Aguilar writes skillfully expressed first-person insights, which make the character real. Jake the dog is more a catalyst for the action. Beagles are energetic, lovable chowhounds, and the author captures that.
With the imperfections and hatred of this political season’s candidates, egoistical Trump Vs. crooked Hilary, it’s not hard to love this political satire about a beagle for mayor. And if you have a dog in the race, this is the book to read.
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Jake for Mayor Lou Aguilar 9781942756682 Books Reviews
Why not be the campaign manager for a dog? Just think about the dog’s sweet nature and inability to make gaffes or destroy one’s reputation. Then view the dishonest incumbent candidate, Mayor Dunbar, who belittles his constituents who lack power and money. Ken Miller realizes the townspeople love the dog but knows that the Dunbar would rather commit a crime than lose to a dog.
I loved this book! It made me laugh out loud, which reminded me of A Confederacy of Dunces. I could not put the book down and ended up reading it in one day. The book is both light-hearted, and carries a deeper message about redemption and one man's journey toward integrity, which is, of course, universal. It also could not be more timely given what is happening on the national political stage. I hope this book is made into a movie! Thank you, Mr. Aguilar! I look forward to your next novel.
When Ken Miller, campaign manager to Bob Morris, witnesses his boss’s political crash via hot mike, his personal life also takes a dive. Taking to the road alone, he ends up in Erie, Colorado, a small town awaiting a make-or-break mayoral election involving only one candidate. Becoming entangled in a series of events with a homeless beagle called Jake, Miller ends up in jail. Released conditionally until trial, he must stay in town and take responsibility for the pooch. Drawn to a local waitress and into the town’s political shenanigans, he brainstorms an idea that will challenge the mayor and pump some life back into his own political career Run Jake as a protest candidate and rise back to the top.
I was pretty certain I was going to enjoy Lou Aguilar’s _Jake for Mayor_—the offbeat plot promised adventure of a different stripe and I was so curious as to what an author could do with this story. If I had any reluctance going in, it would have been a wariness of slapstick type humor, a brand that is funny enough at the start but dries up pretty quickly. But _Jake_’s very opening sentence—“The children were my best props ever”—spoke to greater substance and I relished even more this peek into the game of politics and the players it employs. My lone reservation was for naught _Jake for Mayor_ will have you busting at the seams and the only thing you won’t want to do is put it down.
Aguilar does a great job of informing readers that Ken Miller actually has intuition and ability to read situations, using body language, sensory integration and dialogue as one set of tools. Just as disaster is about to spill all over Morris’s career, Miller senses, soldier-like, the “not right” feel of his surroundings and realizes the lack of child noise has cast an eerie pall over the park.
Narrated in first person, _Jake for Mayor_ gives readers a likable protagonist in Miller, cleverly avoiding the pitfall of conceit while also revealing his near lack of self-awareness as he casually palms basketball tickets into a reporter’s hands or pumps up dollar amounts on official paperwork. But he does understand the level of his duplicity, his own internal monologue or reactions to self corresponding to the gravity of his individual actions. He is honest with himself and readers, sometimes brutally so regarding the deficiencies of himself and others “The pioneer spirit had built a hardy nation in record time, so that my generation could be so infantile.”
The timely nature of this novel is also difficult to resist—in addition to sly acknowledgement of contemporary social phenomena such as “safe spaces” and a mentality that imagines much is owed as opposed to worked for, Aguilar taps into the current real-life campaign season playing out in our country and before the world, with events that seem almost surreal as well as required. As in real life where both major parties have contributed to the setback of a great nation and created the situation they claim to abhor, Erie, Colorado has offered nothing for itself except to keep electing someone seemingly willing to destroy them so long as he imagines himself ahead. When a campaign manager—and an out of towner as well—offers up an option so bizarre as to be unreal, Miller hopes they will recognize it as their own creation and make the leap to save their town.
Indeed, Miller does begin to invest a real sense of caring into the town as he recognizes his affection for Jake has begun to replace seeing him as a tool, and he falls for Jenny, a waitress he meets in one of his first encounters in Erie. We see poignancy in Aguilar’s writing, reflecting Miller’s own façade, revealing deeper feelings shrouded by humor. The author hints at it early on when Miller watches as “[s]ilent lightning speared the barren land,” itself a possible portend of what may lie ahead.
One of Aguilar’s greatest skills in this debut novel is his effective management of shifts between humor and more serious content, as well as his mixing of the two. When it is relayed to a foreigner that a dog is running for mayor, the astounded Australian quips, “Crikey. No wonder your country’s going down the tubes.” While a serious concern for United States citizens in real-world society and politics, it also mirrors quintessential American humor in which the negative is embraced, mocked and defiantly turned into a target for change rather than a source for sinking into despair. Aguilar continues a long tradition of Americans making mockery directed at them their own, owning it as they see fit and turning it around on the original source, a habit that goes at least as far back as _Yankee Doodle_.
Just recently released, _Jake for Mayor_ is a hilarious look at the resiliency of a man who sets out to re-make himself and what he discovers along the way as he passes through the absurd as well as potentially deadly. A fantastic tale as well as a record of our time, this is a book for the keeper shelf. Moreover, if this is what Aguilar gifts us in his freshman (as they say in politics) work, I shall be on guard for what he has in store.
Perfect summer read
A light-hearted skewering of politics arriving just at the right time. Politics are ugly in 2016 but this book takes a jab at the process. Jake for Mayor is a quick read full of fun moments, sly commentary and heart. A fish out of water story in the arena of Doc Hollywood, I enjoyed it. A book that can be enjoyed by a people in a vast range of ages.
It's no secret that behind every egomaniac politician there is a cynical campaign manager, the snickering, finger-fumbling puppet master. In order to run a politician's campaign successfully, you have to have an incredibly thick skin and a low opinion of the human race. You have to view general audiences as superficial, fickle and gullible. You have to know which buttons to push. Meet Ken Miller, an unscrupulous cynic extraordinaire - at a tender age of thirty-two. There is no gimmick he will not use to advance his agenda - from his wholesome, non-threatening boyish good-looks, to adolescent children as "props", to a homeless beagle. Ken Miller is unabashedly candid about the irreverent nature of his motives. His zipper-down candor is refreshing and endearing. He navigates between his public image and his inner self effortlessly.
The rule of thumb is, the more absurd and frightening the state of affairs - the more entertaining the satire. Lou Aguilar understands the formula. I will not hesitate to call him a 21st century Thackeray. An indie filmmaker in his other life, he produces a work of fiction that's cinematic in its delivery. Jake for Mayor will leave you with a profoundly gratifying, wanna-take-a-shower feeling.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I own a beagle, and this book is perfect for me, so I may be a bit prejudice (I’ve read "Shiloh" and watched the movies several times). That said, this is not a children’s book about a beagle, but about Ken Miller, a failing campaign manager and lost soul in the political arena (or is that redundant?) yearning for redemption.
Ken is purposely sleazy with his deals, and free with sexual innuendos toward women, which he thinks is charming. Despite these flaws, he’s likable, and you root for him to “see the light”. There is a Capraesque underdog plot (pun), although Capra’s protagonists are the courageous common man versus the Establishment, and Ken’s journey is to transform into the do-gooder.
The reading is breezy, engaging, and humorous, and I found it hard to put down. Aguilar writes skillfully expressed first-person insights, which make the character real. Jake the dog is more a catalyst for the action. Beagles are energetic, lovable chowhounds, and the author captures that.
With the imperfections and hatred of this political season’s candidates, egoistical Trump Vs. crooked Hilary, it’s not hard to love this political satire about a beagle for mayor. And if you have a dog in the race, this is the book to read.
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