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Summary: Moore, Moore, Moore!
Review: As an author with my debut novel in its initial release and an American government/economics teacher in one of the most impoverished high schools in the United States, I love DOWNSIZE THIS! Michael Moore is a brilliant satirist. This book owns a place on my classroom desk, and I often cite passages from DOWNSIZE THIS! to support my ramblings about the current state of the American political ecomony. I especially enjoy using his chapter on corporate criminals where I get a chance to point directly at students (who are wise enough by then to know they are supposed to agree with their instrcutor's positions which are routinely in sympathy with Mr. Moore's) who are using products produced by these "criminals." Mr. Moore's ravings about NAFTA may be growing old in some parts of this nation, but not at my school--rural and Latino--that is less than a mile from one of the "NAFTA HIGHWAYS." I treasure the memory of the day when a state senator came to speak to my class and found himself peppered with questions drawn from material in this book. I recommend DOWNSIZE THIS! highly, as I do Michael Moore's films ROGER AND ME, CANADIAN BACON, and THE BIG ONE as well as the video sets of episodes originally produced for his two television shows. I only wish he'd collect more of TV NATION onto video. I would love to use his Canada episode, his segment on Avon sales in Latin America, and the Coke/Pepsi rivalry in a Mexican village piece in my classroom. Great works all!
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Summary: Moore the muckracker
Review: No one has emerged on the progressive scene with more creative and flair then Moore. In his book he lays out a series of essays on various topics that sheds some light on what is really going on. I especially liked his Corporate Welfare Mothers section. If he has one fault, it is that the book wanders a good deal in topics, but it is still very very good. I also suggest watching the Awful Truth on Bravo or buying the Tv Nation episodes on Tape, this guy has balls.
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Summary: It changed my opinion of the O.J. Simpson murder case
Review: You may want to read journalist Michael Moore's book DOWNSIZE THIS just for the chapter entitled "O.J. Is Innocent." That passage is a sobering reminder of how the news media selectively reports facts. If all of white America could read Mr. Moore's take on O.J. Simpson, many would agree the ex-football star deserved to beat the double-murder rap.DOWNSIZE THIS comprises Mr. Moore's take on many other controversial issues. His insights on U.S.-Cuba relations; the state of black America; former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton; corporate America's massive job exports; and the lookalike Republican and Democratic parties will widen your eyes, crack you up, or both. You may want the paperback version of DOWNSIZE THIS, as it offers extra text not included in the hardcover. Drawback: the hardcover photo of Mr. Moore has him wearing a "G.M. Mexico" hat; the paperback uses the author's hat for the book subtitle. DOWNSIZE THIS and G.M. Mexico - that says it all. Read DOWNSIZE THIS!
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Summary: Michael Moore's Nobody's Clown
Review: I've heard a few doctrinaire types whine about how success has spoiled Michael Moore. Two words for those people: Ba Loney! Those are the same people who think all left-wing books and movies have to follow the precepts of socialist realism: dull and dreary and, in the end, useless. This book has shows Moore to be sharper and a lot angrier than he lets on in his successful movies and television programs. In fact, I was expecting Downsize This! to be a lot lighter than it is. Instead, it's a lot of laughs, but each laugh has a bitter little barb inside. Those still complaining about "reaching the people" could take a lot of lessons from Moore, and I have no trouble recommending it to anyone who has suddenly realized that things aren't all that great in this tired old world of ours.
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Summary: Agree with it all?? No way...but yet...
Review: I love Michael Moore. I do not agree with every position that he takes in this book (or his films) as I am not a political party. I am a person...my own person. I am not a "liberal", nor am I a "conservative", yet I certainly believe in selected viewpoints proposed by both sides. For those of us who are our own persons, (and I, perhaps naively so, wish to believe constitute the majority of Americans) this book will neither completely enthrall or completely offend. For the rest of you, liberal and conservative alike, you get exactly what you deserve. This man obviously has what a lot of extremists in this country do not...a compassionate heart, despite a few flaws in his thinking (who among us has no flaws). As for the one star ratings (rantings) in this list, I suspect that they are offered by those who have never and expect never to see minimum wage in their lives, except perhaps when they pay their employees. By the way...those liberals who would wish to own Michael Moore as one of their own, I feel that you are missing the point. In "The Big One" he points out that both Clinton and Dole were non-choices of the common man.
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Summary: Down To Earth And Funny!
Review: Very entertaining book to read. I had many belly busters, right to the point humor. Atleast we can laugh at corporate curruption, seeing as many americans will not take a stand! An Eye-opening Book.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: A great explanation of why we dislike the power brokers.
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Summary: complicity and corporate pillaging
Review: How coincidental is this that I pick up Belzer's book, "UFOs, JFK, and Elvis," and this one on the same day at the library? Of course, Michael's nemeses are the corporate giants who are pillaging small town USA in their continual quest for more profits. And yet, some of the same concerns about government complicity and comments about JFK's assassination echo in this seriously abridged version of the book. Moore also reads his own material with great gusto and conviction. Get both these books for a seriously creepy feeling about your government and big business!
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Summary: WAKE UP AMERIKKKA!!!!!
Review: The handbook for the impending revolution. A studyguide designed to help you learn the habits and trends of OUR enemies. Learn how they launder money and campaign contributions to sell YOU out. I loved it! It was much better than Cats , I'm going to see it again and again!
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Summary: A startling wake-up call
Review: Michael Moore tells you how it is in this book, and things in this country aren't good. He reveals the corruption in big business and politics in a wonderfully humorous way. Downsize this is the best peice of social satire I have EVER read. Buy this book.
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