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By (author): Aaron Guilmette Althea Gold Anatoli Boukreev Ann Nocenti Anna Turns Anne Brontë Arianna Huffington Aristotle Atul Gawande Boyd Morrison Brendan Sainsbury Brett Atkinson Carol Field Catherine Le Nevez Charles F. Westoff Chris Colfer Christopher Nolan Chugong Clive Cussler Craig McLachlan Darryl Kegg David Michelinie Dita Von Teese Donald L. Miller Dr Tara Swart Ed Fisher Edoardo Albert Elen Turner Elliot Willensky Eowyn Ivey Fran Leadon Frederik L. Schodt G. Weston DeWalt Gabor Maté Glenn Cooper Gordon Neufeld Holly Willoughby Ian McEwan Igloo Books Ingo Plag James Asmus Jan Soeken Jane Riordan Jasvinder Sanghera Jessica George Joanna Nadin Joe Abercrombie John Lee Jonas Jonasson Jonathan Stroud Julie Owen Moylan Kei Sanbe Kristin Hannah Leslie Patricelli Lisa Ko Lonely Planet Mairi Mackinnon Mareile Schramm Maria Braun Marina Lewycka Michael Connelly Mike Oliver Muneyuki Kaneshiro Nicole Mudgway Norman B. Ryder Norval White Osamu Tezuka Peter Dragicevich Prince Harry The Duke Of Sussex Professor Michael Broers Ramin Zahed Rawinia Parata Raynor Winn RJ Bailey Roddy Button Roxanne de Bruyn Sabine Arndt-Lappe Sarah Burton Selby Wynn Schwartz T.M. Logan Takehiko Inoue Tariq Ali The Silver Spoon Kitchen Tom Defalco W. N. P. Barbellion
Translated by: C. D. C. Reeve
Illustrated by: Elena Selivanova, Jarrett Williams, Jess Mikhail, Yusuke Nomura
Andy Borowitz, one of the funniest people in America (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.
Andy Borowitz has been called a Swiftian satirist (The Wall Street Journal) and one of the countrys finest satirists (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column The Borowitz Report. Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he delivers a wittily alarming polemic that tracks the evolution of American politics from grounds for gravitas to festival of idiocy (The New York Times).
Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagans first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades.
Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesnt move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now. See more