The Bush Dyslexicon - Brossura

Miller, Mark Crispin Miller

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553814222 ISBN 13: 9780553814224

Casa editrice: Bantam, 2001

Riassunto

'They misunderestimated me'... He tends to blurt out all or part of what he's really thinking, even as he's trying to lie about it...George W Bush is so illiterate as to turn completely incoherent when he speaks without a script. He seems like too easy a target, but Dubya speaks for himself. Whether he's envisioning 'a foreign-handed foreign policy', explaining the American military's role - 'to fight and be able to win war, and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place' - or telling his nation that 'more and more of our imports come from overseas', George W Bush's appointment to the highest office in the world should strike fear into all our hearts. THE BUSH DYSLEXICON not only places the President in the context of other notorious dunces-in-chief, but shows him to be indisputably in a league of his own. Packed with incisive essays, famous interviews and classic comments, this book is much more than an amusing collection of Bush's gaffes - it is also a biting polemic on a culture so dependent on the emptiness of television that it has allowed a man who was unable to name the leaders of Pakistan,Chechnya or India to become US President. To quote Bush himself, 'It's not the way America is all about'.

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Recensione:

"Read it and laugh; read it and weep; read it and start building that bunker" (Guardian)

"The malapropisms and other verbal ineptitudes of George W Bush's speech are amusing, but - says Miller - the President's dyslexic illiteracy is the only humorous thing about him. Miller warns us upfront that his book is no laugh-fest, no side-splitting Laugh-In with Letterman...A savage, no-holds-barred diatribe not only against Dubya but his father "Poppy" Bush and - by no means incidentally - Richard Nixon. Miller charges not only a tradition of personal incompetence but political corruption, not just Bush family ambition but dynastic envy of the Kennedys. He charges the media, particularly television, with superficiality, ignorance and far-right propaganda. He digs up damaging allegations relating to drink, drugs and the draft that the GOP had thought were well buried. He publishes the verbal gaffes not just as inane soundbites but often in the context of the interviews in which they occurred" (The Times)

Descrizione del libro:

The sayings of President Dubya. Be afraid...be very afraid.

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• Editore: Bantam
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0553814222
• ISBN 13: 9780553814224
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352