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by Al Franken (著) "It was a cool, misty day in Boston, Massachusetts, and TeamRadioFranken was riding high ..." (more)
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Al Franken is the perfect guy to write a book attacking Americas nasty, mean, vicious right-wing pols, pundits and preachers, wrote The Washington Post in its review of Lies. But his book barely scratches the surface of the Bush administrations well-documented mendacity... Looks like Franken will have plenty of material for a sequel.

The Republicans won the White House and Congress in November. In Fall 2005, Al Franken strikes back. His new book picks up where Lies and The Al Franken Show leave off. Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and comedy!), Al is ready to take the fight to the Bush administration and their right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny, Als hard-hitting work of political satire is poised to become the most talked about book of the year.

Praise for Lies
Brilliant... A serious and riotous retort ... searingly funny.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Franken has something that his targets conspicuously lacka sense of humor. This book is laugh-out-loud funny.
The Washington Post

Lies gets big laughs... Amusing, true and cleverly put... Mr. Frankens best work.
The Dallas Morning News

Lies rings with the moral clarity of an angels trumpet... sharp analysis and humor.
Associated Press



From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Franken is George W. Bush's worst nightmare: a savvy liberal political satirist and Harvard fellow with a massive readership. Franken and his tireless team of fact-checkers are able to spread The Truth to people who might never pick up books by Eric Alterman (What Liberal Media?), David Brock (Blinded by the Right), Joe Conason (Big Lies), Ron Suskind (The Price of Loyalty) or Richard A. Clarke (Against All Enemies). Debunking the lies and allegations spread by "the right-wing blogosphere, radiosphere and asshole-on-TV-osphere," Franken details how the Bush team won the 2004 election through "smears, fears and queers." Believing that the Bush regime's plan was to "divide Americans to conquer them," Franken has created a reference manual that refutes propaganda issued by an administration he believes "shouldn't be running a small town hardware store much less the world's only remaining superpower." While Franken writes with a razor-sharp wit, his intention is deadly serious: to expose how hypocrisy, bigotry, ineptitude, unchecked corruption and partisan politics have resulted in war, debt and a divided nation. Franken considers the political motives behind the Terri Schiavo case and the distortions behind Bush's campaign to privatize Social Security. Along the way he takes on the Swiftboaters, Bush's fake "mandate," Tom DeLay, Iraq and Karl Rove. Like Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, Franken has the ability to entertain, illuminate and motivate. (Oct. 25)
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  • ハードカバー: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Dutton Adult (2005/10/25)
  • Language: 英語, 英語, 英語
  • ISBN-10: 0525949062
  • ISBN-13: 978-0525949060
  • Release Date: 2005/10/25
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: #331,514 in 洋書 (See Bestsellers in 洋書)

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    #3795 in  洋書 > Entertainment > Humor
    #9826 in  洋書 > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science
    #18181 in  洋書 > Nonfiction > Politics

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1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the truth?, 2007/5/23
I picked up this book because I really enjoy political humor, but the title, I discovered, is a real misnomer. I read the entire book waiting for the jokes to begin but I never snickered once. Al Franken can really be funny. He can sometimes be very honest and non-partisan, and very insightful. However, from the front cover to the back, he comes across as a whining, immature teenager who thinks he is more intelligent than his readers.

First, I was disappointed by the many inconsistencies in this book. For example, on page 7, he states that in the preceding seven months, his team had built an explosively popular radio network. On page 20, though, he states that the network had been on the verge of collapse for those last seven months. On page 128, he states that Jesus never introduced any new ideas to the world, but then states on page 134 that he has never read the New Testament.

Then he makes some wild claims which he does not back up in his Notes and Sources. First is the claim that Bush, using his presidential power, stopped the recounting of the 2000 presidential election votes in Florida. Huh? He later claims that Reagan was the one who personally sold weapons to Iran to support the Contras. Yep, there was Ron hopping on a plane to Iran with some weapons in his suitcase and then hopping on another plane with his suitcase now full of cash flying to Latin America. Again, huh? And guess what? If you check the Notes and Sources, there will be nothing backing up this claim, either.

Mr. Franken also recites poll/survey results without telling us how many people were polled nor what the questions were. If you do not know what the question was, or the choice of answers, then you can not have a clear idea of what the true poll result was.

This book was poorly researched and seems to be just a diatribe against anyone or anything that is under Mr. Franken’s skin.

He can do much better.
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