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| Author: Michael Moore |
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| Format: | Hardcover |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN-10: 044653224X
ISBN-13: 9780446532242
Buy.com Sku: 208001411
Publish Date: 9/13/2011
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(in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1.5T
Pages:
448
Age Range:
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| In this smart, funny, insightful and counterintuitive book, Michael Moore will take on them major issues of our society, one by one, showing with great clarity and persuasiveness, that the two sides are really not as far apart as everyone assumes on what we conventionally view as the most divisive issues of our times. To name a few: Unions, Minimum Wage, Big Business, Immigration, Daycare, Social Security, Crime & Punishment, Taxes, The Military. The book will make us think differently about the term "common ground." It will surprise people. It will make them laugh. And, most importantly, it will get them talking. |
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From the Publisher:
This book is Moore's most personal to date -- and will be irresistible to fans and foes alike. A sort of anti-memoir, Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverant vignettes from his own life. ... Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, this is a book Michael Moore has been writing -- and living -- for a very long time.The influential best-selling author and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker of such productions as Bowling for Columbine presents a systematic analysis of such hot-button issues as big business, social security and the military to share his unconventional perspectives on why the nation may not be as divided as believed. 750,000 first printing. |
"Mr. Moore's coming of age as a working-class malcontent is... something to behold. It's the story of a big lunk who learns to yoke his big mouth to a sense of purpose. It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine. Mr. Moore--disheveled, cranky, attention seeking, too eager to pick a fight--is easy to satirize. But he could nearly get away with branding his camera with the words once scrawled on Woody Guthrie's guitar: This machine kills fascists."
- Dwight Garner
09/14/2011
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