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基本信息·出版社：ReganBooks
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2004年05月
·ISBN：0060595507
·条形码：9780060595500
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：占据美国政界, 媒体和商场的叛徒, 骗子和混帐
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Book Description
What happened to the unity that so blessed America after 9/11? Where did our sense of determination go?
Our political, journalistic, and cultural leaders have mounted a campaign to oppose and impede the war on terror that seemed so vital in that rare moment of clarity. This book is my personal cri du coeur about deception in politics, journalism, and business—especially when it stops us from following through on the work 9/11 has left for us all to do.
This book takes on some pretty sacred cows, but it's about time they became fair game.
from the Introduction
Are you appalled by the antiwar tone the news media has taken since the war on terror began—especially "objective" news outlets like the New York Times and the network news?
Are you wondering when liberal celebrities like Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon suddenly became geopolitical oracles whose advice we're supposed to value above the wisdom of tenured experts?
Are you at a loss to decide who has betrayed us more outrageously: the French who abandoned us in our time of need, or our own elected officials, who tapped our 401(k) savings and the tobacco-settlement windfall with equal abandon?
In Off with Their Heads, syndicated columnist and Fox News Cannel political analyst Dick Morris points an accusing finger at the many ways the public has been lied to and misled, pickpocketed and endangered. Whether it's Bill Clinton, who ignored mounting evidence of impending terrorist catastrophe throughout the 1990s, or the members of Congress, who quietly sold our democracy down the river in exchange for lifetime incumbency, Morris rips the cover off the cowardly and duplicitous figures who have sacrificed America's interests for their own.
From private corruption to public treachery, even longtime political buffs will marvel at the astonishing behavior Morris reveals at every level of society—and at how it threatens to compromise the American way of life.
About the Author
Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton's political consultant for twenty years, guiding him to a successful reelection in 1996. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Because He Could, Rewriting History (both with Eileen McGann), Off with Their Heads, and Behind the Oval Office, and the Washington Post bestseller Power Plays.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 229 Width (mm) 160
作者简介 Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948 in New York City) is an American political author, newspaper columnist, and commentator who was once a successful pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.
Morris is best known for managing Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President of the United States. His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election, when it was revealed that he had had an extramarital affair with a prostitute (named Sherry Rowlands) and allowed her to listen in on conversations with the President. Following the scandal, Morris turned his focus to media commentary. He now writes a weekly column for the New York Post (the column is widely carried nationwide) and appears regularly on the Fox News Channel.
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1.Morris Swings Dull, Sharp Axes in "Off With Their Heads.", October 28, 2004
Reviewer: Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL)
Dick Morris has axes to grind. The former Clinton pollster and advisor and current Fox News analyst is angry at America's newspaper of record and much of its news media, both houses of Congress and his former president/boss, a now-vilified ally, many of governors, leading businesses, and its celebrities.
It's a long list, and in "Off With Their Heads" Morris wildly swings his pen like a terrible swift sword to execute each for their own treason. Morris skillfully uses quotes, historical backdrop and his understanding behind statistics to paint a compelling picture of what he calls "what happens when men and women acquire sufficient power over others that abuse becomes almost inevitable."
The more personal the abuse, the stronger and more compelling Morris' writing. He makes emotional cases for neglect of the elderly at for-profit nursing homes, explaining why that business model cannot provide care those people need and deserve while exposing the near-sinister reasoning behind it. Morris attacks Big Tobacco industry with equal, gleeful anger, richly describing huge awards the industry paid for attracting young people on to the habit while condemning state governors (including California's since-deposed Gray Davis) for not putting the money back into anti-smoking campaigns.
Morris' understanding of government inner workings, especially during his two years with the Clinton administration, has been the subject of several books and is also revealed here. He carves well-known legislators like Clinton and Christopher Dodd for allowing accounting firms to slip away from the lawsuits formed from 2002's Enron/Arthur Anderson/Adelphia Cable scandals.
Morris saves particular venom for Clinton's poor to non- existent handling of terrorist threats in North Korea, Iran, and Iraq (especially Saddam Huessein's rise in the immediate years following the first Gulf War.) He uses a French term, "Apres Moi, le deluge," (after me, the disaster) to describe the world handed President Bush right up to and beyond 9-11's horror. (Morris disagrees with many Bush domestic policies but knows and likes where Bush stands on the war on terror.)
That French phrase eases into Morris skewering America's least favorite "ally" for obstructing US attempts to avenge and stop Middle Eastern terrorism. Morris makes a convincing case for France being an American intellectual adversary due to latent anti-Semitism, cultural jealousy and past economic dealings with Saadam and other terrorist regimes. (This chapter also challenges a common view that the Iraq war squandered worldwide goodwill after 9-11.)
Cultural jealousy also plays into the book's weakest chapters. Morris attacks Howell Raines' run as editor of the New York Times (before Jayson Blair's scandal ended it) for leftist bias in polling, story selection and placement. He vilifies a favorite conservative target, Hollywood celebrities, authors and playwrights whose eloquent but mis-informed and often misleading quotes discouraged many fighting for and supporting freedom. (Despite effective quote use and even some welcome wit among the non-stop slashing, this chapter is among Morris' weakest and unfocused; he quotes political apologists like Clinton and Sen Adlai Stevenson III beside Natalie Mains of the Dixie Chicks and Harry Belafonte's insult of Colin Powell.)
The pen remains mightier than the sword, and Morris' writing can be as dull and numbers-laden as sharp and emotional when using analogy and anecdote. (The book needed to gain momentum after a slow first chapter.) Nonetheless, "Off With Their Heads" is worthwhile reading this year and especially this week for its historical background and inside information tethered to today's seismic issues.
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目录 Introduction
PARTⅠ THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS
1 The New New York Times:All the NEws That Fits;They Print
2 After lraq:The Media Credibility Gap
3 Apres moi Le Deluge:How Clinton Left Ticking Terror Time Bombs for Bush to Discover
4 The Hollywood Apologists
5 France:From Great to lngrate
PARTⅡ OUR OTHER ASSAILANTS
6 The Attack on Our Economy:How Two Senators-Christopher Dodd and Phil Gramm-Passed Laws That Helped Enron Defranud Its Investors with lmpunity
7 The Attack on Our Democracy:How Incumbent Congressmen and Their Political Bosses Took Away Our Power to Choose Our House of Representatives
8 The Attack on Our Kids:How the Governors Swiped the Antitobacco Money and Endangerd Our Health
9 The Attack on the Elderly:Nursing Home Nazis
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
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