Beating Around the Bush

by Art Buchwald, Garry Trudeau (Introduction)

Overview

Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald returns undaunted to examine the ridiculous people and preposterous events that we call our daily reality. Collected from his columns, with a foreword by Garry Trudeau, Buchwald’s satirical voice darts at politicians, power, corporations and the media without pause. A self-described troublemaker, Buchwald continues to represent the great American traits of skepticism, humor, and a refusal to compromise in the face of absurdity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609800093
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	504 KB

About the Author

ART BUCHWALD was the writer of some thirty-two books, including two children’s books and two novels. He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for "Outstanding Commentary" in 1982, and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Buchwald, by his own report, was a workaholic and had no hobbies.

Table of Contents

	Preface	15
	Introduction	19
	Economics Lesson	21
	Trouble in the Middle East	23
	God Bless	24
	Saving Time	26
	Let's Not Forget the Lobbyists	28
	Which God Is Your God?	30
	Yesterday's Enemy	31
	Dinner at the Darbys'	33
	Book Flogging	35
	Shadow Government	37
	Safe Deposit for Sale	39
	The Young Audience	41
	It's Cherry Blossom Time	43
	Malice on Purpose	45
	Red Alert	46
	The FBI Changes Its Ways	47
	A Declaration	50
	Things in My Attic	52
	Another Icon	54
	Ashes to Ashes	56
	I Spy-You Spy	58
	Between Iraq and a Hard Place	59
	Will the Real Saddam Stand Up?	61
	I Hate Saddam	63
	To Lose One's Center	65
	Games Children Play	67
	Come Fly With Me	68
	Foreign Affairs for Dummies	70
	The Last Pill	72
	Losing Your Identity	74
	Whose Reality Is It?	75
	The Fight for Duct Tape	77
	Yelling at the TV	79
	The Tip of the Iceberg	81
	The War Over Abstinence	83
	Bumper Stickers	85
	Weapons of Mass Destruction	87
	I'll Always Have Paris	89
	Americo-Shaft Airlines	90
	Freedom of Speech	92
	The Political War	94
	Spam the Greatest Generation	96
	James Bond and WMD	98
	The Bookies	100
	The Iraqi Stock Market	102
	Bless the World	104
	I Won't Be Home for Christmas	106
	Who Remembers Watergate?	108
	Three-Letter Word	110
	Poor Rupert Murdoch	112
	Senior Citizens Vote Too	114
	The Ten Commandments	116
	Power Anonymous	118
	A Great American	120
	The Big Leak	122
	Unnecessary Roughness	124
	But Seriously Speaking	126
	Wal-Mart	128
	Talk Show	130
	A Sexual Revolution	132
	Gotcha Saddam	134
	Holiday Greetings	136
	Saving Britney's Marriage	138
	The Opera Isn't Over	140
	Suppose They Were Wrong	142
	War of the Steroids	144
	Four Letter Words and More	146
	Duck Hunting With Scalia	148
	Just Good Friends-Bah	150
	Who Killed Jesus?	152
	The Good Americans	154
	Canada, My Canada	157
	The Blues Brothers	159
	Soldiers of Fortune	161
	Torture 101	163
	The Rich are Different	166
	Michael, Say It Isn't So	168
	The Trial	170
	"Oh Darn"	172
	How Many Wars?	174
	Commissions for Boo-Boos	177
	Image Control	179
	Couch Potatos	181
	Meat Loaf	183
	Husseinku	185
	Compassionate Conservatism	188
	Left Behind	190
	Trial Lawyers-Who Needs Them?	192
	Do It Our Way	195
	Dan Rather Factor	197
	Our Long Nightmare Is Over Once Again	199
	Congressional No Flu Zone	201
	Slam Dunk	203
	Crate and Baghdad	205
	In God We Trust	207
	A Vivid Inauguration	209
	First Junk Call	211
	Making Extra Money	213
	Social Security Blues	215
	Flip-Flop Diplomacy	216
	Harvard, Dear Harvard	219
	Well Hello, Martha	221
	Smoking Guns	223
	A Constitutional Solution	225
	Oil Tasting for Snobs	227
	About the Author	231

Editorial Reviews

Quite simply, the funniest U.S. newspaper columnist published today and one of the nation's sharpest political satirists.” –Newsweek

“Buchwald has single-handedly restored humor to contemporary journalism.” –Los Angeles Times

“Buchwald is a pitiless chronicler of human folly, particularly as it manifests itself in public officials; the targets of his satire are pretension, inconsistency, and hypocrisy. He makes his readers laugh out loud, then leaves them wondering whether what they laughed at might not equally well have made them weep.” –Library Journal

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