Comic Novel 'Hocus Potus' Takes on Iraq War

By Alan Cheuse

Published August 13, 2007 at 4:00 PM EDT

With Congress out of town on recess, citizens and lawmakers can prepare themselves for next month's assessment of the war in Iraq by reading a new comic novel: Hocus Potus, from former Time and Newsweek correspondent Malcolm MacPherson.

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