ISBN: 0141019875
Godina izdanja: 2004
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Michael Moore - Stupid White Men… and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation
Penguin, 2004
279 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, beleške grafitnom olovkom.

Whether calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, this book is the author`s manifesto on malfeasance and mediocrity.

Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the 21st century was strung with high–speed Internet cable and paved with 401K gold?

Well, so much for the future. Michael Moore, the award–winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the bestseller Downsize This!, now returns to size up the new century – and that big, ugly special–interest group that`s laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he`s calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African–Americans to place `whites only` signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike`s Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. So if you`re feeling the same way and you`re wondering what`s going to give out first – the economy, Dick Cheney`s pacemaker, or your new VW Beetle – here`s the book for you.

Stupid White Men, Michael Moore`s screed against `Thief-in-Chief` George Bush`s power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It`s as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader`s Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he`s serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore`s rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: `Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation`s capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops.` Moore`s ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi`s nonviolent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they`re chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; `no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds],` because it`s too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il `has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne` by watching better movies, like Dude, Where`s My Car? (which contains `all you need to know about America`). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo


Nonfiction, Politics, Humor, History, The United States Of America