Product Description

Michael Moore is America's favourite thorn in the side. With his patented blend of comic provocation and serious advocacy, Moore issues his own Sorry State of the Nation address. In STUPID WHITE MEN, he provides a much-needed alternative to the steady, "let's-line-up-behind-the-President" drumbeat of today's commentators. Few have been willing to speak out with a different point of view lately - until now. Michael Moore is proud to be an American and believes that the strength of a democracy is seen by how well it insures the fullest possible discussion of the issues of the day. Starting with the farcical shenanigans surrounding the November 2000 coup - er, election - in Florida, he reviews the collection of corporate-friendly career politicians George W Bush has chosen to prop up his administration, and confronts Bush in a comic, yet thought-provoking open letter. He takes on issues as diverse as global warming, commercialism in schools, and even the continuing spectre of racism in US society. He challenges Yasser Arafat to mount a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience, challenges employers to hire only black people, even challenges the male gender to clean up its act if men are going to avoid extinction. From the hapless presidency of George W to the sloppy explosion of the tech-stock bubble to the consumer debt epidemic - from the spread of mad-cow disease to Bush's scorched-earth environmental policy - America is collapsing into a political, ethical, fianancial and physical slag heap and Moore leaves no radioactive stone unturned along the way. Entertaining and astonishing in equal measure, STUPID WHITE MEN is the latest and most powerful in Michael Moore's series of acts of satirical subversion, sure to cause controversy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138319 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need UN observers, UN troops". Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's non-violent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and RJ Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo

Synopsis
This text tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how "President" Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin, his dad's cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Not to mention providing detail on just how stupid Bush is, a convincing case for male obsolescence and a fabulous new use for Whites Only signs!

Customer Reviews

Very impressed
This is a good account of how messed up USA is. It is an account from an american who likes to speak his mind, on all matters. He tells of how the election was fixed and much more. After reading this book i went on to buy both his dvd's which were just as good. Very enjoyable and highly recommend.

Moore is the 21st Century Jonathan Swift
Moore is angry. Very angry. His solutions to the problems of the world may be silly or perhaps wrong (some of his assertions I take issue with but on a factual basis rather than a political one). But that is not the point. In the very same way that Swift was suggesting that the Irish should eat their children rather than starve - and was taken seriously at the time - this book is as much a modest proposal to solve the ills of the world.

Yes, the book is out of date but the central themes are not. Each chapter is a pamphlet for a particular ill. Most powerful is the chapter on the idiocy of racism. This is the one chapter I read over and over again.

The most important message of the book? Far and away the most important, I think, is that all of us *must* take part in the political process: stand for your local council. Take part in elections. Stand up and be counted. This is the only way to change the world. And he is absolutely right, so this book gets 5 stars for that argument alone.

Angry and hilarious
A book every American should be forced to read. "Stupid white men" describes the sorry state that the United States are in. As the rest of the world is worried sick by the antics of Mr. Bush, a vast proportion of the Americans don't seem to understand that he is now the biggest security risk in the world. Michael Moore, Corporate America's pain in the lower backside, describes his readers how Bush got elected, what the effects of decades of relentless conservative government are on the position of the poor, the blacks, the women and other "minority groups" (as he rightly observes, women are actually the majority group, but they never DO something with this advantage). And he tells all this in a hilarious, readable way. Sometimes the references to America's national/internal affairs are incomprehensible for a European, but the overall picture is that we Europeans are right in not trusting the US leaders and government to represent us.