Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East And Northern Ireland, And The Bridge To The Twenty-first Century Was Strung With High-speed Internet Cable And Paved With 401(k) Gold? Well, So Much For The Future. Michael Moore, The Award-winning Provocateur Behind Roger & Me And The Bestseller Downsize This!, Now Returns To Size Up The New Century - And That Big, Ugly Special-interest Group That's Laying Waste To The World As We Know It: Stupid White Men. Whether He's Calling For United Nations Action To Overthrow The Bush Family Junta, Calling On African-americans To Place Whites Only Signs Over The Entrances Of Unfriendly Businesses, Or Praying That Jesse Helms Will Get Kissed By A Man, Stupid White Men Is Mike's Manifesto On Malfeasance And Mediocrity.--jacket. 1. A Very American Coup -- 2. Dear George -- 3. Dow Wow Wow -- 4. Kill Whitey -- 5. Idiot Nation -- 6. Nice Planet, Nobody Home -- 7. The End Of Men -- 8. We're Number One -- 9. One Big Happy Prison -- 10. Democrats, Doa -- 11. The People's Prayer. Michael Moore. Includes Bibliographical References. "Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401(k) gold?". "Well, so much for the future. Michael Moore, the award-winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the bestseller Downsize This!, now returns to size up the new century - and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow The Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place Whites Only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike's Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity."--BOOK JACKET. The social critic shares his views of the political, social, financial, and physical complexities of the twenty-first century, from the explosion of the tech-stock bubble to Bush's scorched-earth environmental policies