But the reformists, who had expected to do far better, cried foul.
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For the disaffected and aggrieved Americans of the Obama era, he could not have picked a better rallying cry.
Mr. Burroughs, 47, is the author of eight books, including the memoirs "Running With Scissors" and "You Better Not Cry," and the novel "Sellevision".
Though the characterization may be imprecise — Mr. Wilson comes from a working-class family of immigrants — it makes for a better rallying cry than accounting reform, audit expansion, or the other nuts and bolts of the comptroller's office.
And there's no better rallying cry for girls to whom princesses are anathema than Yasmeen Ismail's forthcoming I'm A Girl! - a challenge to every instant playground assumption that a blue-clad, rambunctious speed demon must be a boy.
This tale and others are collected in "You Better Not Cry," Mr. Burroughs's seventh book, out next week, a slim handful of hapless holiday stories, including one detailing a wincingly gross tryst with an aging sidewalk Santa.
Mike Huckabee's "Simple Christmas" enters the hardcover nonfiction extended list at No. 18, two spots ahead of "You Better Not Cry," Augusten Burroughs's more acid take on the holidays.
Adverts and TV shows may have conned us into thinking that if we're having a miserable Christmas we're the only ones, but You Better Not Cry will be a bit of relief for people who'd rather hide under a blanket between Halloween and new year.
I mean it's better I cry at home than 1 mile out to sea right?
