The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385520348 (0385520344)
ASIN: 385520344
Publish date: May 6th 2008
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Pages no: 281
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
History,
Literature,
American,
Economics,
War,
Culture,
Religion,
Politics,
Sociology
I wanted to read something mean and funny, only to feel a bit bad when he says in the introduction he doesn't want to be that guy that people only think of because he's mean and funny, but still. Not bad otherwise, particularly for the look into the specific varieties of crazy out there. As a former...
Generally speaking, I'm a big fan of Matt Taibbi's writing. Having said that, I thought the introduction to the book was misleading. The introduction makes it sound like Congress, the military, 9/11 truthers and member's of Hagee's church will be given equal time when it's mostly about the church w...
Wants to be HST, isn't, but that's okay after all. Also, pretend I gave it a 3.5I enjoyed reading this, it was great on the COMMUTE. I don't know enough about what he writes about to properly critique the book, but I learned something and appreciated his argument that people of all political affilia...
I actually had a lot to say about it, so feel free to go over to my blog and read my review on it.