Profiles in Ignorance
How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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Andy Borowitz
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Andy Borowitz
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *
Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.
Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street Journal) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column “The Borowitz Report.” Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he delivers “a wittily alarming polemic that tracks the evolution of American politics from grounds for gravitas to festival of idiocy” (The New York Times).
Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades.
Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn’t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.
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"Andy Borowitz, writer, humorist, actor, and creator of the often bitingly satirical “Borowitz Report,” which skewers contemporary politics and politicians at every turn, has in his new audiobook set his sights on the rise of ignorance in American politics. In a sharp turn from John F. Kennedy's classic PROFILES IN COURAGE, which highlighted bravery and integrity in politics, Borowitz's PROFILES IN IGNORANCE features a cavalcade of politicians who, Borowitz argues, are sorely lacking in the knowledge necessary to govern. Borowitz’s narration enables him to inject a measure of sarcasm and irony into the material. His convincing parodies of the vocal cadences of various featured politicians add a further humorous touch."—AudioFile Magazine
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- 24-03-23
Nice funny read
Very funny in parts, amazing how dumb republican politicians are & have been, I thought it was just a recent phenomenon!! Eye opening
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- jeffrey
- 19-11-22
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This book looks through the smoke screen to reveal a very scary reality that our government is run by highly unqualified people. It’s baffling how we as a country have survived this far.
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- Eoin leen
- 12-10-22
Great - buy it!
An epic journey through the recent history of American political culture.
Sometimes enraging, sometimes depressing, but highly engaging and always hilarious.
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- Graham Thompson
- 13-10-22
Tales of toxic celebrity culture
Very well narrated and plenty of tragically hilarious material with more to follow in future volumes I hope.
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- MarieH
- 10-04-24
Title is very apt -
Scary litany of ignorance.
Republicans must have better personnel out there who can rescue the party - surely ?
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- William
- 25-11-22
Intelligent, important and lots of fun!
It's scary to see what a mess we've made of selecting the best and the brightest to govern. It seems that those who rise highest are the least qualified. Now that we see it and understand it better, we can change. Perhaps...
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