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Borowitz Andy - Profiles In Ignorance How America's Politicians Got Dumb And Dumber - Hardcover
Borowitz Andy - Profiles In Ignorance How America's Politicians Got Dumb And Dumber - Hardcover
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Description: Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz one of the funniest people in America (CBS Sunday Morning) brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first - ever National Press Club award for humor Andy Borowitz has been called a Swiftian satirist (The Wall Street Journal) and one of the country's finest satirists (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column The Borowitz Report. Now in Profiles in Ignorance he offers a witty spot - on diagnosis of our country's political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading embarrassing and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan's first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House Borowitz shows how during the age of twenty - four - hour news and social media the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan Quayle Bush Palin and Trump Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons senators and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn t move in a straight line and we can change course if we act now.
Title: Profiles In Ignorance How America's Politicians Got Dumb And Dumber
Author(s): Borowitz Andy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668003886
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/13/2022
Category: Political Leaders & Leadership
Description: Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz one of the funniest people in America (CBS Sunday Morning) brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first - ever National Press Club award for humor Andy Borowitz has been called a Swiftian satirist (The Wall Street Journal) and one of the country's finest satirists (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column The Borowitz Report. Now in Profiles in Ignorance he offers a witty spot - on diagnosis of our country's political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading embarrassing and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan's first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House Borowitz shows how during the age of twenty - four - hour news and social media the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan Quayle Bush Palin and Trump Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons senators and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn t move in a straight line and we can change course if we act now.
Title: Profiles In Ignorance How America's Politicians Got Dumb And Dumber
Author(s): Borowitz Andy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668003886
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/13/2022
Category: Political Leaders & Leadership
