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A journalist provides a searing but hilarious look inside the world of American political campaigns and the electoral process, drawing on his coverage of the 2004 elections and his study of the candidates, the issues, the politics, and more from both sides of the fence. Original. 25,000 first printing.
The must-read summary of Matt Taibbi's book: "Spanking the Donkey: On the Campaign Trial with the Democrats". This complete summary of "Spanking the Donkey" by Matt Taibbi, a renowned political correspondent, presents his cutting and hilarious collection of observations from the campaign trial of 2004 Democratic primaries. He argues that the process of picking a president in America values superficiality over substance and hence a thoughtful, intelligent and substantive candidate doesn't stand a chance in this framework that resembles a reality-based TV show. Added-value of this summary: - Save time - Understand the American democratic process and its shortcomings - Expand your knowledge of American politics and culture To learn more, read "Spanking the Donkey" and discover how the process of electing a president in America often values superficiality over substance, and why this needs to change.
The must-read summary of Matt Taibbi's book: “Spanking the Donkey: On the Campaign Trial with the Democrats”. This complete summary of "Spanking the Donkey" by Matt Taibbi, a renowned political correspondent, presents his cutting and hilarious collection of observations from the campaign trial of 2004 Democratic primaries. He argues that the process of picking a president in America values superficiality over substance and hence a thoughtful, intelligent and substantive candidate doesn’t stand a chance in this framework that resembles a reality-based TV show. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand the American democratic process and its shortcomings • Expand your knowledge of American politics and culture To learn more, read "Spanking the Donkey" and discover how the process of electing a president in America often values superficiality over substance, and why this needs to change.
An up-close look at the democratic race for the White House—it isn't pretty Spanking the Donkey is a campaign diary like no other. Celebrated reporter Matt Taibbi turns a withering eye on the kissing contest of puffed-up martinets and egomaniacal fantasists more generally known as the 2004 Democratic primaries. Taibbi's contempt for the whole charade, and for most of those involved (including a generous helping of his fellow journalists), makes for a searing and highly entertaining account. His refusal to take the proceedings seriously leads him to volunteer for Wesley Clark's New Hampshire campaign in the guise of an adult-film director, while his take on a John Edwards press conference in New York City is filtered through the haze of hallucinogenic drugs. Taking up residence in slums and halfway houses as he follows the circus around the country, Taibbi juxtaposes an idiotic dog-and-pony show in which clashes of plainly identical candidates are presented as real controversies, with the quite separate concerns of the ordinary Americans whose lodgings he shares. The gap between the antiseptic exercise in faint patriotic optimism that is mainstream politics and the harsh realities of life for the millions of Americans that the electoral parade simply passes by has never been more sharply, or hilariously, sketched.
From “the only political writer in America that matters” comes a collection of his best reportage about the worst of times (Harford Advocate). Matt Taibbi is notorious as a journalistic agitator, a stone thrower, a “natural provocateur” (Salon.com). Now, bringing together his most incisive, intense, and hilarious pieces from his “Road Work” column in Rolling Stone, the “political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O’Rourke so much fun” shines a scathing spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders (The Washington Post). With no shortage of outrages to compel Taibbi’s pen, these pieces paint a shocking portrait of our government at work—or, as Taibbi points out in “The Worst Congress Ever,” rarely working. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn’t just hit inside the Beltway. Taibbi gets involved in the action. He infiltrates Senator Conrad Burns’s birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent memory: California v. Michael Jackson and the evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A brilliant collection from one of the most entertaining political writers of today, Smells Like Dead Elephants is “the funniest angry book and the angriest funny book since Hunter S. Thompson roared into town” (James Wolcott).
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Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud that features a free downloadable song "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw And he only had three legs He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey Download the free song at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey.
A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Matt discovered in his travels across the country that the resilient blue state/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A large and growing chunk of the American population was so turned off—or radicalized—by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the increasingly blatant lies from our leaders (“they hate us for our freedom”) that they abandoned the political mainstream altogether. They joined what he calls The Great Derangement. Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by inserting himself into four defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds himself mired in the grotesque black comedy of the American occupation of Iraq; The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically influential apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants. Together these four interwoven adventures paint a portrait of a nation dangerously out of touch with reality and desperately searching for answers in all the wrong places. Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement is an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America at the end of the Bush era.
The new children's book A Donkey Is Not Stupid honors the donkey, which is an important part of life in the northwestern parts of South Africa, where author Pieter Ernst Smith was born. A little black boy named Thabo does not treat his donkey well. He and his donkey became equally stubborn in teaching each other a lesson. In the end, Thabo realizes how much his donkey means to him. He changes his ways and treats his donkey well. Then they became best friends. Apart from guiding kids on how to treat animals, I also want to tell people what a remarkable animal a donkey actually is, and to correct some misconceptions about donkeys, Smith says. I grew up on a farm in South Africa. The workers on the farm were allowed to have donkeys. Most of them treated their donkeys well, but there were always the ones who ill treated and sometimes abused their donkeys (and other animals). The author believes that donkeys are sensitive and intelligent animals, as well as good companions. The story is nicely embedded in the rural black culture in South Africa. First-time author Pieter Ernst Smith worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.He then taught English in South Korea, and is now an estate agent in Johannesburg, South Africa. He wrote this book to show his respect for the animals. In Upington in South Africa, there is a statue in honor of the great contribution of donkeys in the region. He has written the next book in this series. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ADonkeyIsNotStupid.htm
Aware of the covetous interest in his land, the laird of Brae Aisir announces that any man who can outfight his spitfire of a granddaughter will have her as a wife, along with her inheritance. It's a heated contest that inspires the passion of one man and the jealous wrath of another.