ISBN: 9780446541213

This book is Moore's most personal to date -- and will be irresistible to fans and foes alike. A sort of anti-memoir, Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he hilariously presents … Mehr…

This book is Moore's most personal to date -- and will be irresistible to fans and foes alike. A sort of anti-memoir, Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverant vignettes from his own life. Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stuck on an Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy, and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Changing planes in Vienna, he escapes death at the hands of the terrorist Abu Nidal (others weren't so lucky). In search one day for a bag of Ruffles potato chips, he ends up eliminating racial discrimination at private clubs all across America. He founded his first underground newspaper in fourth grade. He refused to be on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite at 16 (There's not enough Clearasil in the world for that to happen). And he became the youngest elected official in the country at age 18 by enlisting an army of local stoners who had no idea what they were doing as his campaign staff. And none of that even comes close to the night the friendly priest at the seminary decided to show him how to perform his own exorcism. All of this is the stuff that makes for great fiction -- but every one of these stories is true and from the life of one Michael Moore, a son of Flint, Michigan, who became an iconic voice for American progressives everywhere. But before that Michael Moore became the Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round rabble rouser and thorn-in-the-side of corporate and right-wing America, there was the guy who had an uncanny knack of just showing up where history was being made. Like the night he was passing through Berlin and some crazies started chiseling on a very large wall. The next thing he knew he was on top of that wall, taunting soldiers who apparently thought he wasn't worth wasting a bullet on. This book is a wild, revealing, take-no-prisoners ride through the early life of Michael Moore. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, this is a book Michael Moore has been writing -- and living -- for a very long time. Trade Books>Hardcover>Current Affairs>Domestic Affairs>Domestic Affairs, Grand Central Publishing Core >2<

2003, ISBN: 9780446541213

I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the bra… Mehr…

I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn''t understand, like a foreign language, or a salad. Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation''s unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forest Gump. Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he''s an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he''s inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world by uttering the words ""We live in fictitious times . . . with a fictitious president"" in place of the expected ""I''d like to thank the Academy."" And none of that even comes close to the night the friendly priest at the seminary decides to show him how to perform his own exorcism. Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, Here Comes Trouble takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. No one will come away from this book without a sense of surprise about the Michael Moore most of us didn''t know. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, it''s a book he has been writing-and living-his entire life. | Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > Politics P10101, Michael Moore<

ISBN: 9780446541213

*Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (Large type / large print Edition)* / gebundene Ausgabe für 59.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft Medien > Bücher … Mehr…

*Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (Large type / large print Edition)* / gebundene Ausgabe für 59.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (gebunden) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Politikwissenschaft, GRAND CENTRAL PUBL<

ISBN: 9780446541213

*Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (Large type / large print Edition)* / gebundene Ausgabe für 37.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft Medien > Bücher … Mehr…

*Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (Large type / large print Edition)* / gebundene Ausgabe für 37.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (gebunden) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Politikwissenschaft, GRAND CENTRAL PUBL<