Kate B. reviewed on 7/31/2009 + 9 more book reviews

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(From the cover) In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America - and the world - by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ratings, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal - and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 - book buyers from from coat to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era manifesto, making it one of the best-selling nonfiction books of the past decade. After twenty years of America's two political parties morphing together and moving further and further to the Right, and with corporate power at an all-time high, Stupid White Men expressed the anger and will of an American public searching for a way to strike back. And strike back they did, as the liberal majority found its voice and charged forward - thanks in part to Stupid White Men kicking open the doors.

With an unerring eye for greed, hypocrisy, and corruption, Michael Moore takes on the whole ugly mess of America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Whether he's demanding Un.N. action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta or wondering why airline pilots qualify for food stamps, Stupid White Men is a pitch-perfect skewering of our culture of Malfeasance and Mediocrity.

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