Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Brossura

Taibbi, Matt

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ISBN 10: 0802170412 ISBN 13: 9780802170415

Casa editrice: Black Cat, 2007

Riassunto

A political journalist and author of Spanking the Donkey offers a shocking portrait of the American government at work as he sounds off on the abuses and outrages perpetrated by the Bush administration, covering such topics as George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, post-Katrina New Orleans, Abu Ghraib, the evolution-vs.-intelligent design battle in Pennsylvania, and more. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.

Product Description:

"Smells Like Dead Elephants" is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O Rourke so much fun ("The Washington Post"). Bringing together Taibbi s most incisive and hilarious work from his Road Work column in Rolling Stone, "Smells Like Dead Elephants" shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn t just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns s birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent memory: "California v. Michael Jackson" and the evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent work from one of our most entertaining writers."

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• Editore: Black Cat
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802170412
• ISBN 13: 9780802170415
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 247