Overview
By the editors of The Onion, Citizen You! takes on the Bush administration through the kind of topnotch satire for which The Onion is known. Using the format of a series of fake government pamphlets compiled in one book, it tackles Bush's scare mongering, war mongering, stripping of civil liberties, damage to education, and favored charity of donating to rich guys. It is at once hilariously funny and deeply depressing. Coming out in time for the 2004 US elections, this is a better citizenship handbook that looks like it's produced by the US government. This how-to guide tells citizens what to think, what not to think, and how to behave in a proper, patriotic manner. The visual look of the book will complete the disguise. Much like The Onion, Citizen You! is delivered in unblinking newspaper journalese. Citizen You! will be stylistically consistent, staying firmly in the template of a government-released instructional handbook. Putting on the mask of the Bush administration and speaking in their language gives the book a more sarcastic and biting delivery than if it were to rail against them from the outside. Chapters include Welcome, Citizen by John Ashcroft, 20 Questions You Sh
Full Product Details
Author: Mike Loew ,
Joe Garden ,
Randy Ostrow
Publisher: The New Press
Imprint: The New Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.498kg
ISBN: 9781565849150
ISBN 10: 1565849159
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 January 2004
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
A practical Book of Virtues that will benefit all moral Americans. Five'll getcha ten this little filly's gonna lead the field all the way down to the wire. Come to Poppa!
Author Information
Joe Garden is from Chicago by way of Wisconsin. By now, his story of being plucked from the obscurity of a Madison liquor store and thrust into the obscurity of byline-free satire writing has become legend. He has been a writer and contributor to The Onion for ten years. Mike Loew has been the Graphics Editor and a writer for The Onion since 1995. He produced the graphics for The Onion's 1999 New York Times #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century, and was a full-time writer on the book. His own book Tough Call: Hard-Hitting Phone Pranks was published by St. Martin's Press In May of 2000. Randy Ostrow is a producer for United Artists, having previously worked as an executive vice president of production at USA Films, and senior vice president of October Films. His credits include Let It Ride, starring Richard Dreyfuss, State of Grace starring Sean Penn, Gary Oldman and Ed Harris, Boaz Yakin's Fresh, Julian Schnabel's Basquiat and Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square.
