| Title : | Stupid White Men : and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Michael Moore, Editor | | Publisher: | New York : Harper Collins College Publishers | | Publication Date: | 2003 | | Pagination: | 277 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-06-039245-1 | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | American wit and humor
Politics and government
United States - Social conditions
| | Class number: | 973.931 | | Abstract: | Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! is a book by American filmmaker Michael Moore published in 2001. Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the September 11 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on New York Times Best Seller list (including eight weeks at number 1) for hardcover nonfiction and went to 53 printings. It is generally known by its short title, Stupid White Men. HarperCollins wanted Moore to rewrite half of the book. They asked him to tone down criticism of George W. Bush, who had just been elected as President. They also wanted to change the title to Michael Moore: The American and remove the chapters "Kill Whitey" (which criticizes what Moore perceives as negative aspects of white American culture), "Dear George" (a negative open letter to Bush), and "A Very American Coup" (which discusses the election in Florida and accuses the Bush campaign of winning via electoral fraud). Furthermore, they demanded that Moore personally pay the $100,000 cost of printing the revised book. If he didn't comply, they would abandon the project and pulp the copies already printed. In the book, Moore suggests that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation and HarperCollins, "passed down" this decision. | | Contents note: | A Very American Coup; Dear George; Dow Wow Wow; Kill Whitey; Idiot Nation; Nice Planet, Nobody Home; The End of Men; One Bigg Happy Prison; Democrats, DGA; The People's Prayer; Tallahases Hi-No; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19388 |
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