| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780385520348 | | Publisher: Spiegel & Grau | | Publish Date: 5/6/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 205579107 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 10299 | | Pages: 272 |
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| | | Perfect for an election year, and bound to provoke controversy, this scathingly funny, audaciously reported, and genuinely illuminating narrative of what America has become at the end of the Bush Era is written by a major new voice in political journalism.
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In this delicious work of no-holds-barred journalism, Matt Taibbi goes spelunking in the lunatic fringe of American politics and culture, interviewing fundamentalist preachers in the country's mega-churches, 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and radical sects and societies. However, though these groups frequently come across as absurd--if not downright scary--Taibbi's approach is never condescending. On the contrary, Taibbi's greatest indignation is saved for mainstream politics, where corporate deals, and sold-out politicians offer so little real representation for their constituents, that the only direction in which people with strong beliefs and opinions can go is towards the edge. Written with relish and zeal, THE GREAT DERANGEMENT offers perhaps one of the best, and certainly the most entertaining, portraits available of 21st-century America, a land of disenfranchised subcultures in orbit around a grotesque bloated center.
| Praise| "With his acidly funny narratives about national affairs, Matt Taibbi has made a name for himself as a modern-day Hunter S. Thompson, and his latest book of unhinged reporting only strengthens his gonzo status. Vividly interpreting contemporary American politics as a 'grotesque black comedy,'...Taibbi?s renegade book is a bracing kind of salvation--the kind that will amuse and enrage at the same time." 04/30/2008 |
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