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Sto caricando le informazioni... Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire (edizione 2007)di Matt Taibbi
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Drivel - don’t waste your time. Any possible insights into the lives and behaviors of the people about whom Taibbi is writing is lost in his heavy-handed snark and attempts at caustic humor. ( ) This a collection of articles from Taibbi's Rolling Stone column from the past few years. I've enjoyed seeing Taibbi on Real Time this season and wanted to read some of his work. The last article entitled the Worst Congress Ever is a very depressing look at 109th Congress and how it attempted to keep the Democrats out of the loop and the indictment of Tom DeLay and the scandals surrounding Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley, Bob Ney, Randall "Duke" Cunningham, and William Jefferson. While its quite clear where Taibbi stands politically, he includes quotes and opinions from more conservative leaning individuals such as congressional scholar Jonathon Turley. I would love to read a follow-up article here with his opinions of the 110th Congress. Other articles include his coverage of the Lynndie England and Michael Jackson trials. His descriptions of the circus around the Jacko trial and how the amount of time taken to bring England to trial is shown by the lack of public interest taken when she was finally in front of the judge are spot on. Overall an enlightening but depressing read if you aren't a Rolling Stone subscriber as there isn't much added to the book other than the original articles. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Smells Like Dead Elephants is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, "a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O'Rourke so much fun" (The Washington Post). Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his "Road Work" column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. 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. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns' 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-versus-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent work from one of our most entertaining writers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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