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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America : (and Al Franken Is #37)
Author: Bernard Goldberg

Book Information
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780060761288 - ISBN-10: 0060761288
Publication Date: 7/1/2005
Pages: 320


Other Versions of this Book: Audio CD (Abridged)

Book Description:

The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell -- this time aimed at ...

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America

No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this country great -- and the culprits who are screwing it up.

Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans) ... the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous) ... the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose show has been compared to a churning mass of maggots devouring rotten meat) ... the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs at some of our best colleges, whose views run the gamut from left wing to far left wing) ... and many more.

Goldberg names names, counting down the villains in his rogues' gallery from 100 all the way to 1 -- and, yes, you-know-who is number 37. Some supposedly "serious" journalists also made the list, including the journalist-diva who sold out her integrity and hosted one of the dumbest hours in the history of network television news. And there are those famous miscreants who have made America a nastier place than it ought to be -- a far more selfish, vulgar, and cynical place.

But Goldberg doesn't just round up the usual suspects we have come to know and detest. He also exposes some of the people who operate away from the limelight but still manage to pull a lot of strings and do all sorts of harm to our culture. Most of all, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America is about a country where as long as anything goes, as one of the good guys in the book puts it, sooner or later everything will go.

This is serious stuff for sure. But Goldberg will also make you laugh as he harpoons scoundrels like the congresswoman who thinks there aren't enough hurricanes named after black people, and the environmentalist to the stars who yells at total strangers driving SUVs -- even though she tools around the country in a gas-guzzling private jet.

With Bias, Bernard Goldberg took us behind the scenes and exposed the way Big Journalism distorts the news. Now he has written a book that goes even further. This time he casts his eye on American culture at large -- and the result is a book that is sure to become the voice of all those Americans who feel that no one is speaking for them on perhaps the most vital issue of all: the kind of country in which we want to live.


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Top Member Book Reviews

Traci V. (tracivee) wrote on 6/11/2007...

13 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great book. He names a lot of people who have each done something to erode away at our culture, society,etc. Very funny and a great read!!! I just love this guy. He tells the truth and doesn't hide behind all that phony political correctness.

(J) wrote on 5/15/2008...

8 member(s) found this review helpful.

This was an awesome book. So much better than your average "political" book. His comments on each of the 100 people were not only very interesting, but humorous as well. Most people I'd heard of, but a few I hadn't. It was informative AND entertaining.

Stephanie G. (Yourmomchoselife) wrote on 1/14/2006...

6 member(s) found this review helpful.

Interesting and entertaining. I agree with most of his picks too.

Sandra W. mycatscanread wrote on 11/12/2007...

5 member(s) found this review helpful.

Humorous look at 100 people and why the author thinks they aren't doing anything good for the country. I found myself laughing a good bit while reading this.

George P. wrote on 7/23/2006...

5 member(s) found this review helpful.

So interesting, so true, I found it exhilarating

Norma M. (jeanne10) - Custer, MI wrote on 4/28/2009...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

If you're right wing, you'll love this book.

Jeffrey L. wrote on 1/12/2006...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

Very, very funny book!

Gayla C. (hope7) wrote on 7/8/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Top notch political book with a sarcastic and highly comical look at Americans who are making themselves look bad. The writer reminded me of Bill O'Reilley and his patriots and pinheads proclamations but I like this book better because you like the writer better. You get the feeling this man backs up what he says and would be more willing to jump into the fire to help someone than someone who would either write a book about the fire or the failings of the fireman and I like that in a man and especially in a writer. I agree MJ had a deserving spot on this list and I find myself happy that Goldberg did not write but one line about MJ and it was right on given the light of recent events.
I recommend this book to others. I give it a 4 only because I dont care much for pinhead proclamations to me its better to award positive behaviour in people inorder to reinforce it than to point out mistakes, thats the women of this worlds job not men, and hey all people screw up at sometime in their lives!
My favs from his list are:
Eve Ensler,Sheila Jackson Lee,John Vasconcellos,Ingrid Newkirk,David Weston,Neal Shapiro and my worse favorites NANCY HOPKINS AND NORMAN MAILER AND LAST AND LEAST, IN A SENSE OF VALUE OF CHARACTER, ANTHONY ROMERO ACLU PRESIDENT.

Gil W. (gil) wrote on 4/1/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

see my full review on my blog @ http://www.gilwilson.com


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Wendy C. (Froggie) wrote on 11/12/2009...


I enjoyed the book - very quick reading material. It was funny, engaging, but gave me information about some well-known and not so well-known people that I didn't know. If Mr. Goldberg wrote another book I would be very interested in reading it.


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