Search - Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Used Book ~ Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by author Michael Moore
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Author: Michael Moore
Book Information
Publisher: Regan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Rating: 66

ISBN-13: 9780060392451 - ISBN-10: 0060392452
Publication Date: 2/2002
Pages: 304

Book Description:
  • The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen . . .
  • Our great economic expansion is unraveling faster than a set of Firestones . . .
  • Our water is poisoned, the ozone's in shreds, and the SUVs are advancing like a plague of locusts . . .

Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401K gold?

Well, so much for the future. Michael Moore, the award-winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the bestseller Downsize This!, now returns to size up the new century -- and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike's Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. Among his targets:

  • George W.: "President" of the United States. The Thief-in-Chief. A trespasser on federal land, a squatter in the Oval Office. Send in the Marines! Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring me the head of Antonin Scalia!
  • Bill Clinton: One of the best Republican presidents we've ever had.
  • The Former Yugoslavia: Bring back Marshall Tito! Nobody in America liked him much when he was alive, but now he looks like Lady Bird Johnson.
  • The Idiot Nation: A friggin' stain on a blue dress. That's what captured our attention in the nineties -- along with slow-moving Broncos, six-year-old strangled beauty queens, and Hugh Grant's dating habits.
  • Corporate America: There is no recession, my friends: no downturn, no hard times. The rich are wallowing in loot -- and now they want to make sure you don't come a-lookin' for your piece of the pie.

The polls indicate that 60 percent of Americans are "upset or angry" about this land in which we now live -- a land where crooked courts select the president and money rules the day. So if you're feeling the same way and you're wondering what's going to give out first -- the economy, Dick Cheney's pacemaker, or your new VW Beetle -- here's the book for you.


Members who requested this book also requested:

Similar books to this author and title:
Used Book ~ Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed AmericanUsed Book ~ Adventures in a TV NationUsed Book ~ Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's AmericaUsed Book ~ Dude, Where's My Country?Used Book ~ Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right


Genres:
Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged)


Top Member Reviews

Helen K. (Billie-K) from MILWAUKEE, WI wrote on 4/3/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Michael Moore's mission is to ruffle as many feathers as possible, and with his latest manifesto, Stupid White Men, he's done an admirable job. Moore, known as both a filmmaker and a bestselling author, takes on our current and former presidents, corporate America, and the judicial system in this irreverently witty, no-holds-barred look at the state of the nation.

John O. (buzzby) from LA QUINTA, CA wrote on 7/1/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

It only gets worse, Mike. This apparently came out around August, 2001, so he doesn't write as much about terrorism as he does later. I'd agree with Alexandra, below, his themes come off better in a movie than in a book, this was too unfocussed and ranting for me.

Alexandra D. (ADG) from FOREST HILLS, NY wrote on 1/13/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Although he has some intriguing ideas along with a sense of humor, he's no writer. His movies are much better.

James A. from JEFFERSON, GA wrote on 9/2/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

I believe that this book is great to anyone interested in politics.

This book can be enjoyed by liberals and conservatives alike. With Michael Moore considered to be from the extreme left, it is an eye-opening experience into the ideology that has taken over the once effective Democrat Party.

David H. (xwingr2) from DEERFIELD, IL wrote on 9/1/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

It was ok... I like his movies better.

Celeste C. from BELL CANYON, CA wrote on 5/17/2005...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great book if you love left wing conspiracy theiries.

Saara A. (sunnymoody) from WASHINGTON, DC wrote on 4/9/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is one of those books that makes you go hmmmm....

Kate W. (katydid13) from WASHINGTON, DC wrote on 1/20/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Laugh out loud funny!

Dan M. (dan) from HUME, CA wrote on 12/28/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I do not care for this man

Shannon H. (Shann) from ENGELHARD, NC wrote on 9/10/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

lol a funny book


Rate These Member Reviews

Lynnette M. from ASHEVILLE, NC wrote on 5/10/2006...


good politically neglect:0

Sandra H. (Sanandee) from CHAMPAIGN, IL wrote on 2/24/2006...


HB by that most controversial guy, yeah, same one who made that movie (on a shoestring). Lost the dustjacket somewhere.