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Jack Valenti's debut novel, Protect and Defend, brings soap opera to the soapbox. A Bush-like President hampered by a slumping economy faces off against a slew of enemies. Despite his Beltway experience, Motion Picture Association of America president Valenti offers only crude insights into the corridors of the capital. ''Power,'' one presidential assistant explains to another, ''is to passion as flesh is to carnivore.'' And as lame dialogue is to trash. D
Posted Nov 06, 1992
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