More Political Babble: The Dumbest Things Politicians Ever Said

by David Olive, Barry Blitt (Illustrator)

Overview

An award-winning journalist and renowned political cartoonist present over 1,200 entries of the silly, stupid, offensive, arrogant, racist and just plain dumb things politicians have placed on public record. Modeled on its successful predecessor, this often unbelievable yet always entertaining book contains chapters on such juicy subjects as scandal, campaigns, consultants, foreign affairs and the media and prominent political personalities including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620457917
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	03/09/1996
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

DAVID OLIVE is an award-winning journalist whose business articles and book reviews are published widely. Editor of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine, he is the author of the bestsellers Business Babble, Political Babble, and Canadian Political Babble (all available from Wiley).

BARRY BLITT is a political cartoonist and illustrator whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.

Table of Contents

On the Campaign Trail.

The Domestic Front.

Bill Clinton and the Stature Gap.

The Hillary Factor.

The Bobster: Mr.

Dole Goes to Washington.

The Ides of Newt.

Gramm-Standing.

Guru Madness.

Foreign Affairs.

That Whiff of Scandal.

Better Left Unsaid.

Invective and Ridicule.

Media Relations.

Take This Job and Shove It.

Explications.

Post Partum.

Index to Quoted Sources.