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100 people who are screwing up America-- and Al Franken is #37 Cover Image

100 people who are screwing up America-- and Al Franken is #37 / Bernard Goldberg.

One hundred people who are screwing up America-- and Al Franken is number 37 (other title)

Goldberg, Bernard, 1945- (Author).

Summary:

Goldberg takes 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, the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs at some of our best colleges), and many more. Some supposedly "serious" journalists also made the list. 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, this book 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.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0060761288
ISBN: 9780060761288
Physical Description: xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, [2005]
Copyright: ©2005

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

America bashers -- Hollywood blowhards -- TV Schlockmeisters -- I'm your pimp, you my bitch, and other great American love songs -- American jackals -- I'm offended, therefore I am -- Racial enforcers -- White-collar thugs -- Sex warriors -- Reading, writing, and radicals -- The list: Michael Moore -- Arthur Sulzberger -- Ted Kennedy -- Jesse Jackson -- Anthony Romero -- Jimmy Carter -- Margaret Marshall -- Paul Krugman -- Jonathan Kozol -- Ralph Neas -- Noam Chomsky -- Dan Rather -- Andrew Heyward -- Mary Mapes -- Ted Rall -- John Edwards -- Al Sharpton -- Al Gore -- George Soros -- Howard Dean -- Judge Roy Moore -- Michael Newdow -- The unknown American terrorist -- Lee Bollinger -- James Kopp -- Dr. Martin Haskell -- Paul Begala -- Julian Bond -- John Green -- Latrell Sprewell -- Maury Povich -- Jerry Springer -- Bob Schrum -- Bill Moyers -- Jeff Danziger -- Nancy Hopkins -- Jim McDermott -- Peter Singer -- Scott Harshbarger -- Susan Beresford -- Gloria Steinem -- Paul Eibeler -- Dennis Kozlowski -- Ken Lay -- Barbara Walters -- Maxine Waters -- Robert Byrd -- Ingrid Newkirk -- John Vasconcellos -- Ann Pelo -- Markos Moulitsas -- Anna Nicole Smith -- Neal Shapiro -- David Westin -- Diane Sawyer -- Ted Field -- Eminem -- Shirley Franklin -- Ludacris -- Michael Savage -- Howard Stern -- Amy Richards -- James Wolcott -- Oliver Stone -- David Duke -- Randall Robinson -- Katherine Hanson -- Matt Kunitz -- Jimmy Swaggart -- Phil Donahue -- Ward Churchill -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Katha Pollitt -- Eric Foner -- Barbara Foley -- Linda Hirshman -- Norman Mailer -- Harry Belafonte -- Kitty Kelley -- Tim Robbins -- Laurie David -- The dumb and vicious celebrity: Linda Rondtadt, Martin Sheen, David Clennon, Janeane Garofalo -- The vicious celebrity: Alec Baldwin, Wallace Shawn, Sean Penn -- The dumb celebrity: Cameron Diaz, Fred Durst, Kate Hudson, Margaret Cho -- Chris Olifi -- Sheldon Hackney -- Aaron McGruder -- Jane Smiley -- Michael Jackson -- Barbra Streisand -- Kerri Dunn -- Richard Timmons -- Guy Velella -- Courtney Love -- Eve Ensler -- Todd Goldman -- Sheila Jackson Lee -- Matthew Lesko -- Rick and Kathy Hilton.