The Virtual Bookcase : Shelf Politics
Politics on all levels, national, international
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Book description"As I write this, Im sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up quite an appetite getting here two hours early and shuffling in the block-long lines until I got to the security checkpoint where I could take off my shoes, remove my belt, and put my carry-on luggage through the screening system
"Whats going on? Its homeland security. Welcome to the new age of knee-jerk security at any price. Well, Ive paid, and youve paid, and well all keep payingbut is it going to help? Have we embarked on a massive multibillion-dollar boondoggle thats going to do nothing more than make us feel more secure? Are we paying noseb...
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Review:Someone was bound to go after Michael Moore eventually and this book holds nothing back. An immensely popular figure to political left-wingers, Michael Moore presents himself as a regular working-class guy in a baseball cap with the courage to take some rich and powerful folks to task for their corrupt and deceitful ways. David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke say this populist, muckraker image is pure whitewash. Believing that this charade has gone on for too long, and done too much damage to the U.S., they have written this book to expose Moore as narcissistic and irresponsible and his body of work "as manipulative as totalitarian propaganda." To prove their point, they pick apart Moore's books and movies to illustrate how he is consistently man...
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