Elliot Weiner is a historian with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history. After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on Harding’s tumultuous life, he gets wind of a trunkful of the twenty-ninth president’s billets-doux, rumoured to be guarded by his ancient mistress on her declining Hollywood Hills estate. Theres no depth to which he wont stoop, no moral boundary he wont traverse and no preposterous scheme he wont machinate to get at them.First published in 1983, My Search for Warren Harding garnered immediate acclaim and was described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as a classic picaresque novel in the tradition of Cervantes; Robert Plunket’s original fans included Amy Sedaris, Larry David and Madonna. In this deliciously bonkers novel, The Aspern Papers meets A Confederacy of Dunces meets Sunset Boulevard meets pure, glorious, hair-raising farce.