Smells Like Dead Elephants af Matt Taibbi (Bog)

Forfatter: Matt Taibbi

Sprog: Engelsk

Antal sider: 274

Forlag: Black Cat

Udgivelsesår: 2007

Smells Like Dead Elephants is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, "a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O'Rourke so much fun" (The Washington Post). Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his "Road Work" column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn't just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns's birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent memory: California v. Michael Jackson and the evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent work from one of our most entertaining writers.

Titel: Smells Like Dead Elephants

Genre: Journalistik

Sammendrag: Samlingen bringer sammen berygtede journalistiske agitator Matt Taibbis mest indsigtsfulde og humoristiske værker fra hans klumme i Rolling Stone. Skrevet under en periode med historisk frustration, tvinger disse tekster pen til papir, og maler et chokerende billede af vores regeringsarbejde, eller mangel på samme.

Type: Paperback