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“A raucous rant against the armies of the right. . . . Pierce is at his scathing, insightful best.”—The Boston Globe “A lively and, dare I say, intelligent study of the ongoing assault on gray matter.”—Stephen Amidon, The New York Observer “[A] witty and pointed indictment of our nation’s disturbing ability to vilify smart people and elevate chowderheads to positions of power and influence.”—The Salt Lake Tribune“For a good (if painful) laugh about creationism and other bits of American lunacy, try Charles Pierce’s Idiot America. It’s a funny, sly version of an argument made recently by Al Gore in The Assault on Reason, and by the brilliant Susan Jacoby in The Age of American Unreason.”—John A. Farrell, USNews.com “There is only one Charles Pierce, and while that may be a good thing, it is also a damn good thing we have his unique combination of gonzo, erudition, fearlessness, and eloquence to help us make sense of a senseless world. I stand in awe, and appreciation.”—Eric Alterman, author Why We’re Liberals and When Presidents Lie “Pierce penetrates, and the world feels less idiotic already.”—Roy Blount Jr., author of Alphabet Juice and Long Time Leaving “Charles Pierce takes us on a brilliant and hilarious tour of the back roads of American idiotocracy through history—skewering Atlantis-seekers, evolution deniers, jackasses, nincompoops, and right-wing know-it-alls with his trademark sledgehammer wit. Reading Pierce’s Idiot America, I laughed myself stupid.”—Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville “Engaging. . . . Pierce delivers a rapier-sharp rant on how the America of Franklin and Edison, Fulton and Ford has devolved into America the Uninformed.”—Publishers Weekly “There’s a guy down at the end of the bar who’s furiously angry, hilariously funny, and has an Irish poet’s talent for language. He’s been traveling the country, and he’s been alternately appalled and moved by what he’s found there, and, lucky you, he wants to tell you all about it. Listen.”—Peter Sagal, author of The Book of Vice and host of NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me
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About the Author
Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for the Boston Globe Magazine, a contributing writer for Esquire, and a frequent contributor to American Prospect and Slate. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications, and he is a regular on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me and Only a Game. Visit the author's wbsite at www.charlespierce.net.
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Product details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (May 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780767926157
ISBN-13: 978-0767926157
ASIN: 0767926153
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5.1 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
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I really liked this book--and laughed out loud a few times too. I would happily to recommend it to anybody who likes to read politics/satire/humor.A few things:Yes, this is a collection of loosely-connected essay-type writings. I rather liked that, though I see others don't. I like nonfiction, read a lot of it, and this isn't the only book 'organized' in that way...doesn't bother me at all.Also, since I am an Old Person, I ended up having to look up some of his references! How embarrassing is that? G. Gordon Liddy I get, right? Stuff like the word meep....not so much.I did, however, appreciate the mental and verbal nimbleness of a writer who can interweave references to Constitutional framers and to some (to me) obscure character from The Simpsons. That's the kind of thing I read for. Writing, that is.And then there is the humor factor.How can you not laugh at the description of Larry King asking, "...even if evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?"Or, at the statement of a pastor (in favor of teaching creationism in his local school) that, "We've been attacked...by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture."The humor is, clearly, based on the effects of absurdity, as most good stand-up is.Lastly, yes, this is all written from a liberal point of view.Whatever floats your boat, but I'm not sure personal political leanings should keep any of us from reading anything--even the stuff from the Other Evil Side, whatever that may be for you.
This is such an amazing book, I really cannot recommend this highly enough.Please do not get distracted by the title, this is not a left-wing critique of America, it is a celebration of the fact a country can have a place for genuine cranks and eccentrics, but despairs over the anti-science anti-reason element infecting the Conservative Movement and through that the government of a Superpower. It is a plea for cranks to be put in their place, on the fringe. It shows the danger of when anti-enlightenment values are put at the centre of government of a country built on those enlightenment values.This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how a country that put a man on the moon can see it scientists feel the need to march in the streets to protest in favor of reason and logic just 48 years later. The story of Shishmarreff is depressing on a global level and it shows how corporate power has led to the planet facing an existential threat. The story of Terri Schiavo will make you angry when you see how a political party in the search for short-term political tactical advantage can put people working in jobs most of us would not dare go near, through personal hell and ruin the final moments a man gets to spend with a wife who is dying. It is an indictment of a conservative movement and poltical party that has embraced it and the role they are playing in modern American life, but really it is an indictment more of their enablers in the media, a group who see themselves involved in entertainment not information delivery, a group who see themselves as celebrities covering celebrities rather than a group of people who's job it is to communicate truth.It skewers what he calls the 3 rules of Idiot America but does not deny the rights of Americans to be Idiots, in fact he celebrates the authentic American Cranks but just asks that they no longer be embraced by a political party and idealogical movement that has long ago lost its bearings. It is a cry for engaged citizenship and a love letter to his country.Idiot America is more patriotic than any book with bald eagles and American Flags on its cover, it is the True Patriotism of a man asking for his country to achieve its most noble aims, not the crude Nationalism of a Conservative Movement that see's a country that does not exist trying to bring back a country that never was.READ THIS BOOK
Charles P. Pierce, a gifted, occasionally rabid American writer, penned Idiot America, a scathing critique of the political/religious right and its meddlesome interventions in several arenas of public life. Mr. Pierce’s writings currently appear in Esquire and Sports Illustrated. Most of Pierce’s political columns for Esquire are little more than a channeling of his inner Hunter S. Thompson, amusing to those of us who remain mystified at the gullibility of the 2016 GOP primary voter, but possessing little long-term literary value. On the other land, his Sports Illustrated articles are memorable for their blend of candid opinion and literate observations that extend well beyond the left field foul pole or the penalty box. Idiot America, published in 2009, and sub-titled How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, was a hybrid of the rabid dog Pierce and the gifted chronicler of contemporary American life Pierce.Idiot America contains in-depth analysis of several issues that were on the front-burner during the first decade of the 21st century. The Dover, Pennsylvania school board attempted to replace the teaching of evolution with a Biblical-based version dubbed (in its most recent iteration) Intelligent Design. Pierce revisits the tragic case of Terry Schiavo, a clash between the forces of the political/religious right and the hospice care movement. The influence of political/religious right- oriented talk radio, perhaps the number one factor contributing to the dumbing down of the electorate, is addressed in a chapter titled, “Radio Nowhere.â€The eloquence of the author is on full display in a chapter devoted to the effects of global warming. “The Chukchi Sea is a southern child of the Arctic Ocean,†Pierce writes. “The great Pacific storms that barrel through the tropics and then swing north to devastate China and Japan keep coming, roiling and merciless…The storms roar themselves hoarse, having finally found a place as implacable as they are. This is where typhoons come to die."Pierce could not possibly have known the identity of the person who would become the 2016 GOP standard-bearer, but he is chillingly prophetic in an Afterward to the paperback edition of Idiot America.“…much of the reaction to the election of Barack Obama caught me up short,†Pierce writes. “I was prepared for the thinly veiled xenophobia and the completely unveiled racism. I was ready for the inevitable nonsense swirling around moonshine theories of where he was born and to whom…What did startle me was the sudden reappearance of all these old memes - …hearing again about hidden hands controlling the economy and how the Nazis were really socialists…Hell, we were hearing about socialism itself, which was supposed to have passed its sell-by date back on the day the Wall fell in Berlin and history was supposed to have ended.â€
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