[bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted--Idiot America
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
Thannks for letting us know. I wrote to the person who requested to see if he
is able to and wants to proof it.
Cindy
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--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Just submitted--Idiot America
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 6:41 AM
Hi all,
I just submitted for proofing "Idiot America) How Stupidity Became a Virtue
in the Land of the Free" by Charles P. Pierce.
It's been read through and had the usual pre-submission work done. Headers
stripped; chapter titles and page numbers present and protected. 293 pages.
Book jacket:
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won. A veteran journalist's
acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of
ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to
separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the
Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a
saddle.... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a
cheering crowd, "We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!"
He knew then and there it was time to try and salvage the Land of the
Enlightened, buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed. With his
razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching,
side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United
States, and how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow
deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American
Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. With Idiot America, Pierce's
thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that
somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will
once again be pitied, not celebrated.
Deborah
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