Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk

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Summary: Fantastic!! I only had to read this to become self-hating!!!
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In "Kerry Apocalypse", Dowd compiles her columns in the New York Times since Bush appeared on the national stage. Dowd writes with a psychosis that can be just a hazy memory to, well, a certain liberal news station who had conditioned their hard-core base to confuse scorn for wit. Dowd is not like that; this book is the real thing.



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Summary: DowdyHead Says Brand A Sitting President During Wartime
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Maureen Dowd is a very sloppy writer, sprinkling loads of Bull$hit culture refrences in desecrating Bush and his administration. I found a particular column using the movie "The Godfather" to be mentally ill and very sub-human. She also has a columns describing the Bush administration as godly and comparing the Kerrys and the Hitlers. As someone who had never read any of Ms. Dowd's columns before this book was a dishonor and I learned a lot about LYING over the last five years.



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Summary: The Smartest Woman in America!
Review: Every Thursday and Sunday, I eagerly await opening the front section of the New York Times, flipping till I get to the Op-Ed page, and spending a few glorious minutes in the sassy, funny, and often vicious world of Maureen Dowd. Now, thanks to the sparkling "Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk", I can spend time in that acerbic world whenever I like!

Ms. Dowd is the smartest and wittiest woman in America, possibly even the world. She can write a brilliant column about Saudi Arabia of Donald Rumsfeld or Vladimir Putin, and then turn around and write a beautiful elegy to her mentor, Mary McGrory that is touching and funny ("Let's go down to the White House and see Yasser Arafat, and then we'll go shopping!"). Nobody does it better.

On the Times Op-Ed page, which includes such literati luminaries as Thomas Friedman, William Safire, and Paul Krugman, she is without a doubt the star.

To those of you who are unfamiliar with Ms. Dowd, this is the perfect introduction. It doesn't matter if you are a liberal or a conservative; my Republican father-in-law likes her just as much as any Democrat. She is worth it, no matter what side of the political debate you are on.

Read it now!!!

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Summary: Don't waste your time or money
Review: How can anyone who loves this great country buy this book? She constantly trashes all the things that make America great... freedom of speech and religion; institutions like the presidency and congress and the hardworking middle class. If you hate America and everything it stands for, then this book is for you. If you have ever visited a military cemetery and know what our boys died for, then don't waste your money or time.



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Summary: Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
Review: How many ways are there to call a president callow, incurious, provincial, and overmatched? Dowd covers what has to be most of them in this generous collection of 145 of her New York Times columns about George W. Bush, father, and family. Although she states, "I'm not well suited to being a polemicist," in fact Dowd fills that role so splendidly a reviewer could happily quote from almost any page. "W. avenged his dad, replaced his dad, made his dad proud and rebelled against his dad, all with the same war," she says in a nice summary of a few recurring themes. Recurring themes, in fact, are the book's one problem, since past a certain point one columnist's take on one president seems repetitive, even for so keen a writer as Dowd, who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. This, her first book, mainly includes columns from 2000-2004. While a collection spanning more of Dowd's career might have served her better, in this election season the book will be in demand. Recommended for any library

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Summary: Her Columns Will One Day Be Required Reading In Journalism
Review: I am a HUGE fan of columnists. I have successfully used Amazon.com to assemble a great collection of Mike Royko column books, which I read periodically. To backtrack, I used to work as a fulltime journalist and am now in entertainment...but am doing some writing for $$ these days as well as an increasingly popular weblog.

I LOVE politics and I LOVE humor -- and Dowd's Bushworld is a MUST OWN for you if you look politics, analysist and humor. Why? Because she's the logical successor to Royko. True, Royko did a lot more columns about local events, quirky events, major political figures -- and Dowd focuses mostly on her old haunting ground, the political beat. But what she does -- mixing fact, often screechingly funny sarcasm and humor, with a clear political point -- she does much better than anyone on the scene.

If you're a fan of columnists, you have to have this book. If you like politics but don't want to read a long treatise, you have to have this book (most entries are short). If you're a young person interested in satire or opinion writing that is less dependent on name calling than on wit and scathing sarcasim, you have this book. I'm all over the place politically, so I don't always agree with Dowd but I know that she is at the top of her game and getting better every day.

The wonderful thing about Bushworld is that you can see her evolution here -- how she has gotten more confident and daring as time has gone on.

I had to do searches and scramble to assemble my Royko collection. One day young journalists and writers will do the same for Dowd's work. No one comes close to what she does -- and you can admire her, even if you disagree with her.

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Summary: Typical NYT Dreck from the Queen of SMARM
Review: Only true BLUE Demo-Homies will value this compost-heap of Dowd's
greatest TWITS. The Star of Mahr-world and ace NYT SALONISTA will astound otherwise intelligent readers with shrill,pseudo-clever SMARMosity that comprises virtually everything she writes. Her rancor as she disses "The Bushies" will undoubtedly prove tiresome to even THE FAITHFUL(to cop a "blurp" from the vastly over-rated book about The Sox from The Bluest of Blue Meanieland). UNFIT to COMMEND is DOWDWORLD:Enter at Your Own Risk. This book's importance(?)is precisely the Looney Lacunae-tude that now characterizes the 4th Estate's premier engine of AC/PC dreck. The NYT learned nothing from its Jason Blair. The BLUE/RED divide is real,and journalists of Dowd's ilk not only contributed to it,but will further the demise of the Print Media of which The Grey Lady once suzerained. If you think this review is One Note, wait til Her Dowdness viragoes it at YOU in this sophomoric collection of New York, New Age Yuppie Ghetto-Jerrymads by the Madame La Fartge of The Jackal-Bins.(Two stars is generous). Arthur F. McVarish


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Summary: A Blue Demo-Homie who loves this book
Review: Thank you Mr. McVarish for that wonderful Blue Demo-Homie moniker. I wear it proudly. If Ms. Dowd's book does nothing else, it will provide a little bit of a laughter during an especially ugly time in our nation's history. Before the Right Wing nuts in our country round up us Blue Demo-Homie, French-wine-drinking, anti-Christian, pro-Islamic terrorist, UN loving, communist symathizing, nipple flashing, Hollywood-type, activist judge, baby killer, military hating, liberal elite evildoers, and send us into Guantanamo Bay for medical experiments, we can enjoy Maureen Dowd's amazing talent. But you better get his book quick before the Christian Right starts banning and burning it. Hell, if Spongebob teaching kids tolerance is evil, Maureen Down must be the Devil's Daughter. But one doesn't need Maureen Dowd to ridicule the President, just read his own press conference transcripts. The one about social security the other day is priceless. "We'll make sure no one gets gouged". HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Summary: A NICE COLLECTION OF DOWD'S WORK
Review: This book consists of a collection of Dowd's columns written for the New York Times. You may or may not agree with her, but her writing is quite witty. I do have to state that I disagree with a number of the reviewers who felt that writing and reading such a book is "Un-American" in some way. Hey, this is what our country is about...the ability of everyone to say what they feel and then allow we, the readers, to read it and to make up our own minds. That being said, when you read this work, you have to remember who is writing the book, who it is written for and that it is indeed a "Bush Basher." Ms. Dowd is a tallented writer. She does not have as sharp a tongue (or pen) as Ann Coulter, but nevertheless makes her points just as well. I truely feel that we all need to read the works from both sides, left and right. This will give us a greater understanding of where we are as a country. This is an entertaining work, one the reader must put into context for his/her self. the style is quite readable and I do recommend it.

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Summary: Long!
Review: This book is huge and it hurt my arm trying to lift it. As far as the content is concerned, quite good. Maureen Dowd knows her way around a Bush. (if you see double ontondre you are a communist) She portrays the Bush family business of Presidenting as a freudian battle. Successful father and the son trying to both impress and surpass him. I'd call it edipal but instead of trying to have sex with his father's wife he is fighting his fathers war. Which I suppose is just as intimate.