The Bush dyslexicon
observations on a national disorder
by Mark Crispin Miller
"It seems like too easy a target, too cheap a laugh, but Mark Crispin Miller, with the deftly trenchant wit that always distinguishes his writing, uses the blunders and malapropisms of George W. Bush to make a larger point about the way in which we elect our presidents.".
"The book is a raucously funny ride - whether 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 its empathic emptiness, Miller argues, can a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land. To quote Bush himself, "It's not the way America is all about.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Legasthenie, Humor, Language, Quelle, Presidents, Sprachstil, Malapropisms, Politics and government, Knowledge and learning, Election, Politische Rede, Humor (grappigheden), Quotations, Politieke communicatie, Bush, george w. (george walker), 1946-, Presidents, united states, English language, terms and phrasesPeople
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The Bush dyslexicon: observations on a national disorder
2002, W.W. Norton
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The Bush dyslexicon: observations on a national disorder
2001, W.W. Norton
Hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-370).
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