The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393322963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Scholarly, not humorous" according to Dr. Robin C. Halprin. Extremely disappointing. Was expecting a humorous book, given the myriad mistakes Bush II made constantly. Instead, the book is dense & scholarly to the point that I can't read it & wish I cld return it for credit. Going to give it to a library as a charitable donation. Frightening While an intelligent person has already realized that our president often has trouble turning a phrase, The Bush Dyslexicon goes beyond laughing at W.'s short-comings. The results are frightening.One of the main arguments concurs with a previous suggestions that Bush has dyslexia. The author, while leaving this as a possibility, goes to further to suggest that Bush is an amnesiac. For this reason, Bush mixes up pre-rehersed answers to questions in his mind, only getting small memorized portions corr. Read with a grain of salt, it's very eye-opening This started off as a "funny" read for me, but became much more quite quickly. I initially bought this book thinking I'd giggle over some of Bush's stupider quotes and that would be that.Instead what happened was that I took an enormously long time finishing a book that scared the out of me. I couldn't sit and read this for long stretches at a time and so it took me literally weeks to finish. Miller has an agenda--I won't deny that. And even as left leaning as I am, I still thought that a few of hi
"A particularly astute analysis of the television coverage of the campaign, the election, and the political aftermath."NewsdayThe Bush Dyslexicon is a raucously funny ridewhether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics." But there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and it