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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed By
- N/A
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Release Year
- 2023
- Personalized
- No
- ISBN
- 9781668003893
- Book Title
- Profiles in Ignorance : How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History
- Topic
- Topic / Politics, United States / 20th Century, Commentary & Opinion, Political, American Government / General, American Government / Executive Branch, American Government / National
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1668003899
ISBN-13
9781668003893
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11059001249
Product Key Features
Book Title
Profiles in Ignorance : How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Topic / Politics, United States / 20th Century, Commentary & Opinion, Political, American Government / General, American Government / Executive Branch, American Government / National
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
973.930922
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * 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 country's 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 Reagan's 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 doesn't move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now., An instant New York Times bestseller: the first work of straight nonfiction from Andy Borowitz, "America's sharpest political satirist" ( The Washington Post ), Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber examines modern American politics in five entertaining and enlightening profiles.
LC Classification Number
E893
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- b***a (2824)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseReceived 11/29/25. Thank you for a very pleasant, smooth & quick transaction. The item was packaged well for shipping. It was in new condition as it was decribed. Department 56 always produced quality figurines. Considering this piece has been discontinued, the price was reasonable. I am well pleased with this transaction and I know I will enjoy the piece for years to come.
- b***. (50)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThanks 2 This Seller 4 Delivering An Item Exactly As It Was Pictured, & Described 2 B N. I Was Concerned At 1st, When Finding The Package N My Mail Box, As I Heard It Rattle, So, Not 2 Agrivate It Any Further, I Was Very Careful Upon Opening It, As I Found That The DVD Was Loose, & Not On The Hub Within The DVD Case. From My Past Xperiences, This Is Usually A Bad Sign, As The DVD's R Usually Scratched, But Luckily, This 1 Still Arrived N Xcellent Cond. I Highly Recommend This 'Saved' Seller! 👍Robocop (DVD, 1998, Criterion Collection - OUT OF PRINT) w/ Manual *LIKE NEW* (#257003342058)
- 8***k (3789)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFar and away the ugliest seller I have encountered in more than 20 years. (eBay tells me it's 21.) Sent a book described as good, but it was underlined IN INK from cover to cover!!! Mistakes can happen, but this seller ignored three emails, and when I submitted photos and asked for a full $21.39 refund for this worthless book, I was offered $4.99. She just wanted to get me irritated all over again. When eBay intervened and saw photos, a full refund was immediate. Avoid her like the plague!