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Summary: I have read the book. It is excellent.
Review: In contrast to softball journalism and the fluff biographies of lasy year's campaign, the Bush Dyslexicon book is a stellar, incisive, morning-after report on our enigma, the President. Miller's knowledge of 20th Century history is expansive. He writes about Nixon, Reagan and Bush I with an off-the-cuff informality and humor that is as informed as it is readable and fun. The current crisis in put in context: the corporate media have an aversion to reality. The cameras of television pierce through the falseness of oligarchic candidates, but the smiling and talking heads at the desks can't seem to call it as they see it. Miller makes this analogy: Bush clearly has dyslexia, and it's the least of his (and our) problems. Dyslexia is when your eyes can read but your brain can't make out the sounds of words. In the same way, the corporate media machine suffers from its own grave dyslexia, and this is the real subject of Miller's book. Our information system is so dominated by the corporate mentality, we can't get the truth. Miller has handed in a collection from the deitritus of Bush's brain. The conclusions he draws from the evidence are chilling.
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Summary: Powerful Anlysis of a National Disgrace
Review: While you may be familier with much of the content of the body of this book, Miller places our "president"'s lies and malpropisms in a new context- concluding with an afterword which accurately describes the political dynamic responsible for this illegitimate administration. Miller shows us how people claiming to stand for liberty could support the stark violation of thousands of voters' civil rights and adds to our understanding of the need for dissent. Read it and shudder!
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Summary: Not ready for prime time
Review: The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder is an impressive work of scholarship on many levels. To begin with, only a researcher with a heroic stamina could have closely watched the amount of vacuous punditry accruing to the last presidential election, to clearly trace the ideologies masking as common sense. Yet the main achievement and cause for hope in this book is that it models (especially in its first half) a way to argue back with the bland television coverage of politics. TV coverage of politics gives at most one or two possible reactions for its presumably passive viewers. The great thing about this book is not the conclusions it comes to on the callousness of power-or even on TV's complicity-but the model it provides for varied critical understanding. Much of this book is a demonstration of active reading of the texts that make up our political information. The implicit challenge of the book is for television watchers to apply rigorous critical standards to political speeches, debates, photo-ops, and to the professional interpreters' work as well. For instance, in The Bush Dyslexicon, George W. Bush's malapropisms, half-metaphors, evasions of questions, and syntactic entropy are revealed not as the loveable foibles of a man of action, but as indications of what he tries to conceal from the public. The author suggests interpretations and a degree of attention that may not be ready for prime time. The method requires lots of thought and attention. Evidently the author has much more respect for the intelligence of his audience-very refreshing indeed--than do the producers of news programs and certain politicians for theirs.
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Summary: Sex, Lies and Guys Who Go Ape
Review: Five stars as proof of the moral depravity and mental vacuity of Bush bashers who can't accept defeat. What would be so bad if the president did have the IQ of a fence post. I mean is running this country all that complex of a job? You don't have to be brilliant to understand global warming and ozone and stuff. Just ask Dick Cheney. At least we know he's honest and will never LIE to us. It runs in the family. Look at the fine daughters he raised. The apple never falls too far to turn over a new leaf. How about his Dad's coming clean on that whole Iran-Contra thing. Finally what's a secret war in Latin America compared to lieing about sex? As the song says, "Absolutely nothin'." The author thinks the press is right leaning. He must be joking. The press constantly dwells on the problems of the poor and minorities. Seldom do we hear about those who must struggle to balance the skyrocketing costs of prime real estate, private schools and German luxury cars, all the while staring down staggering paper losses in the tech sector. Finally, the author doesn't even know that "W" is pronounced "double-u", not "Dubya" and there you go.
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Summary: partisan sour grapes
Review: a very uninteresting book. the author is partisan to the point of being unreasonable. definitely not a contribution to the font of knowledge....
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Summary: Scary Book
Review: As a true believer in the 1st Amendment and personal liberty I cannot take too much issue with Mark Miller's interpretations of GWB's speaking style and grammatical gaffes. What I find truly scary is the ease with which the self-proclaimed intellectuals of the world have led themselves to believe that a perjuring sex-addicted sociopath who thinks he is far superior to his admirers is somehow a more positive influence on the country than someone with a Harvard Business School degree who has solid common sense values and is not the least bit interested in the liberal academic establishment's opinions. Don't waste your money on this one unless you see yourself described above.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone with an open mind and an ability to be frightened by what has happened to our media coverage of the republican party.
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Summary: An Extraordinary Book!
Review: While it's often a hilarious read, the DYSLEXICON is much more than an easy put-down of George W. Bush. It's pretty obvious that those reviewers here who have attacked the book have not even read it, because it has a LOT to teach us, not just about Bush the man, but about the sorry state of our democracy in an age of rampant television. A must-read for anyone who cares about this country!
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Summary: The most freightening book on Dubya I've seen...
Review: I gotta be honest... this book terrified me. I work in High Tech and have prospered well over the last 8 years under the Clinton administration, as have all American businesses and industries. This book puts into clear perspective why we're in DIRE economic straits... The "Far Right" has been so intent on demonizing Democracy that they've lost rationality when it comes to anything else, and Mr. Miller's book shows how it all came to be. Far from a gaffe-attack on Dubya's lack of education, this book shows his true colors in a way that has me sweating in my shoes. I hope EVERY American reads this book before the next Congressional Election!
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Summary: Don't waste you time.
Review: It does make one cringe on occasion to hear about President Bush's malaproprisms. This book offers little constructive or insightful beyond the obvious. Our President is not a gifted speaker, true, but we will get used to it (we got used to President Clinton's lying), even if it causes us to suffer embarassment from time to time. This book provides small arms ammunition for the anti-Bush crowd, and little more of true substance. The fact is, Bush won, Gore failed to steal the election. Walk it off, and don't waste your time on this book.
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