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Idiot America

Charles Pierce

Author : Charles Pierce
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780767926157

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.

Idiot America

Charles Pierce

Author : Charles Pierce
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0767932080

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Author : Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781568332369

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Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa Pdf

Three Latin American writers quote, dissect and review this character in a cultural critique that combines analysis with humor and a relentless self-criticism.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated

Kenneth Hite,Shepherd Hendrix

Author : Kenneth Hite,Shepherd Hendrix
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101060285

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated by Kenneth Hite,Shepherd Hendrix Pdf

History comes alive! Presented in a high-impact, graphic novel format, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated is a visually exciting and easy–to–understand alternative to boring textbooks. Innovative design and lively illustrations transport readers back in time to witness these events and more: • The changing lives of the Native Americans • The abolishment of slavery • The achievement of suffrage • The scandals, wars, and assassinations of the twentieth century • America's famous and infamous historical figures

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

Al Franken

Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780440508649

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Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations by Al Franken Pdf

Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful, and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls--just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is) responsible in part for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time".--John Podhoretz, New York Post.

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

Matt Kracht

Author : Matt Kracht
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781452177397

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The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht Pdf

National bestselling book: Featured on Midwest, Mountain Plains, New Atlantic, Northern, Pacific Northwest and Southern Regional Indie Bestseller Lists Perfect book for the birder and anti-birder alike A humorous look at 50 common North American dumb birds: For those who have a disdain for birds or bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky, illustrated handbook is equal parts profane, funny, and—let's face it—true. Featuring common North American birds, such as the White-Breasted Butt Nugget and the Goddamned Canada Goose (or White-Breasted Nuthatch and Canada Goose for the layperson), Matt Kracht identifies all the idiots in your backyard and details exactly why they suck with humorous, yet angry, ink drawings. With The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, you won't need to wonder what all that racket is anymore! • Each entry is accompanied by facts about a bird's (annoying) call, its (dumb) migratory pattern, its (downright tacky) markings, and more. • The essential guide to all things wings with migratory maps, tips for birding, musings on the avian population, and the ethics of birdwatching. • Matt Kracht is an amateur birder, writer, and illustrator who enjoys creating books that celebrate the humor inherent in life's absurdities. Based in Seattle, he enjoys gazing out the window at the beautiful waters of Puget Sound and making fun of birds. "There are loads of books out there for bird lovers, but until now, nothing for those that love to hate birds. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America fills the void, packed with snarky illustrations that chastise the flying animals in a funny, profane way. " – Uncrate A humorous animal book with 50 common North American birds for people who love birds and also those who love to hate birds • A perfect coffee table or bar top conversation-starting book • Makes a great Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthday, or retirement gift

Profiles in Ignorance

Andy Borowitz

Author : Andy Borowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781668003886

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Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street Journal) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column “The Borowitz Report.” Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he offers a witty, spot-on diagnosis of our country’s political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading, embarrassing, and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn’t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Backpacking and Hiking

Jason Stevenson

Author : Jason Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101222973

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Backpacking and Hiking by Jason Stevenson Pdf

A guide so thorough it will send you packing... Backpacking remains one of the most popular, and inexpensive, outdoor activities in America. The Complete Idiot's Guide (r) to Backpacking and Hiking helps anyone prepare and plan for a rewarding adventure. Covers planning, training, shopping and packing for the trip. -How to live on the trail -First aid and other safety tips -Practical time- and money-saving hints -What gear is necessary and what isn't -Special considerations when travelling with groups or pets

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101622513

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Unusually Stupid Americans

Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras

Author : Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras
Publisher : Villard
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307417619

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Unusually Stupid Americans by Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras Pdf

A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said Everyone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” but sometimes that means we’re free to be as bravely stupid as we want! In Unusually Stupid Americans, Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras assemble choice bits of stupidity, U.S.A.-style, including •the top seriously flawed American advertising moments, including Pacific Airlines’ brilliant “You’re scared of flying? So’s our pilot!” ad campaign, which led the airline to bankruptcy within two months of the campaign’s inception •the Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration in Florida, where a plaque was un-veiled that was intended to honor the actor James Earl Jones but instead read, “Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive” (an unfortunate slip-up, as James Earl Ray was King’s assassin) •and much more!

The Useful Idiot

S. V. Date

Author : S. V. Date
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798711551287

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He is gone.... For now. America, we got lucky. On the laundry list of things Donald Trump has been terrible at in his life, transforming our country into a fascist autocracy was only the latest. After four years of constant chaos, endless lying, the near daily horrors like an official policy to rip children from the arms of their parents to discourage illegal border crossings, we need to keep in mind that it could have been worse. As bad as it was, Donald Trump had zero capacity for strategic thinking, no interest in learning from his mistakes, a non-existent attention span. So, yes, he absolutely admired and praised murderous dictators and had authoritarian tendencies himself, including, of course, his repeated attempts to steal the election he could not win, capped off with the deadly QAnon Coup attempt of January 6. But he was inept, and terrible at implementing his impulses. What happens, though, next time, when the fascism-curious president is smarter and more competent? Donald Trump has blazed the trail and shown, with the help of a pliant Republican Party, that there is no consequence for trying to thwart the will of the voters. There will be others.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History

Walter C. Fleming

Author : Walter C. Fleming
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0028644697

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History by Walter C. Fleming Pdf

This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment-both historical and recent-under the U.S. government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations.

Useful Idiots

Mona Charen

Author : Mona Charen
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0895261391

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The author attacks American liberals as naive and disingenuous in their dealings with the world, accusing them of rewriting history to portray themselves as "Cold Warriors" along with conservatives.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football, 2nd Edition

Brian Tarcy,Joe Theismann

Author : Brian Tarcy,Joe Theismann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101221976

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football, 2nd Edition by Brian Tarcy,Joe Theismann Pdf

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies and even what to wear! New coverage for this edition includes: the draft—how it works for teams and players including parity, new technology on the field including instant replay, dangerous referee flags and rules changes for college and pro ball, XFL, arena league, expansion teams and NFL Europe, and the changing business and team strategy for professional football today.

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World

Matt Kracht

Author : Matt Kracht
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781797213415

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The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World by Matt Kracht Pdf

Let's face it—all birds are fascinating, wonderful, idiotic jerks—no matter where in the world they reside. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel ventures beyond to identify the stupidest birds around the world. Featuring birds from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, author Matt Kracht identifies the dumb birds that manage to live all over the freaking place with snarky, yet accurate, names and humorous, anger-filled drawings. This guide book details exactly how much these morons suck with facts about each bird's (annoying) call, its (stupid) migratory pattern, and its (downright tacky) markings. Complete with a matching game, bird descriptor checklist, tips on how to identify a bird (you can tell a lot by looking into a bird's eyes, for example), this profanity-laden book offers a balance of fact and wit that will appeal to hardcore birders and casual bird lovers (and haters) alike. A MUST-HAVE: A must-have sequel to the bestselling parody book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America. UNIQUE & LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY: This is a great coffee table or bar top conversation-starting book. And a bonus, while the content is humorous, it is practical and useful! A GREAT PRESENT: This is the perfect gift for the bird lovers and haters in your life. It also makes a great Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthday, retirement, or gag gift. Perfect for: • Birdwatching and nature enthusiasts • Armchair birders (or nonbirders) • Someone who needs a quirky gift for an animal lover friend • People with serious birders in their lives who want something lighthearted

Idiot America

Idiot America by Charles Pierce Pdf

Idiot America by Charles Pierce Pdf

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa Pdf

The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated by Kenneth Hite,Shepherd Hendrix Pdf

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations by Al Franken Pdf

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht Pdf

Profiles in Ignorance by Andy Borowitz Pdf

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Backpacking and Hiking by Jason Stevenson Pdf

The Idiot by Elif Batuman Pdf

Unusually Stupid Americans by Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras Pdf

The Useful Idiot by S. V. Date Pdf

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History by Walter C. Fleming Pdf

Useful Idiots by Mona Charen Pdf

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football, 2nd Edition by Brian Tarcy,Joe Theismann Pdf

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World by Matt Kracht Pdf

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