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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Broadway Books
Publication date
May 23, 2006
Pages
256
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400081042
ISBN-10
1400081041
Dimensions
0.75 by 4.75 by 7.50 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
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Original list price
$12.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A trenchant analysis of the vast array of 'bullshit' that is undermining twenty-first-century life skewers everything from corporate communications and wartime propaganda to scripted political events, misleading ads, and the Bush White House, explaining the harmful repercussions of living in a world of continual exposure to phony discourse. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âThere is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...â
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissectsâno, disembowelsâthe culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bushâs White House, with its âwallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,â to Big Pharma, with its âgateway prescription drugs.â With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.
Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases
â¢astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms
â¢Capra-corny: see Tom DeLayâs Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)
â¢increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things
â¢kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution
â¢the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like âYour call is important to usâ
â¢think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act
â¢The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissectsâno, disembowelsâthe culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bushâs White House, with its âwallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,â to Big Pharma, with its âgateway prescription drugs.â With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.
Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases
â¢astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms
â¢Capra-corny: see Tom DeLayâs Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)
â¢increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things
â¢kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution
â¢the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like âYour call is important to usâ
â¢think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act
â¢The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones
Editions
Hardcover
from Crown Pub (July 23, 2005)
9781400081035 | details & prices | 242 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $21.95
About: An analysis of the vast array of 'bullshit' that is undermining twenty-first century life skewers everything from corporate communications to scripted political events, explaining the repercussions of continual exposure to phony discourse.
About: An analysis of the vast array of 'bullshit' that is undermining twenty-first century life skewers everything from corporate communications to scripted political events, explaining the repercussions of continual exposure to phony discourse.
Paperback
from Emblem Editions (April 6, 2010)
9780771070471 | details & prices | 304 pages | 5.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $19.99
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Broadway Books (May 23, 2006)
9781400081042 | details & prices | 256 pages | 4.75 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $12.95
About: A trenchant analysis of the vast array of 'bullshit' that is undermining twenty-first-century life skewers everything from corporate communications and wartime propaganda to scripted political events, misleading ads, and the Bush White House, explaining the harmful repercussions of living in a world of continual exposure to phony discourse.
About: A trenchant analysis of the vast array of 'bullshit' that is undermining twenty-first-century life skewers everything from corporate communications and wartime propaganda to scripted political events, misleading ads, and the Bush White House, explaining the harmful repercussions of living in a world of continual exposure to phony discourse.
from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (May 10, 2005)
9780771070426 | details & prices | 288 pages | 5.50 × 7.60 × 1.00 in. | List price $22.99
Miscellaneous
from Crown Pub (July 12, 2005)
9780307238368 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $12.95
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