Fools' names, fools' faces
"What do Bill Bennett and James Carville, Louis Farrakhan and Gennifer Flowers, Don Imus and Bill Moyers have in common? They all wish Andrew Ferguson had never heard of them. For ten years, Ferguson has prowled the fever swamps of American celebrity in search of frauds and mountebanks, and he has not been disappointed."--BOOK JACKET. "This is "celebrity journalism" of an unusually high - and skewed and entertaining - order. But Ferguson also takes his readers beyond mere celebrity to examine t…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Fools' names, fools' faces / Andrew Ferguson ; with an introduction by P.J. O'Rourke.
Summary
"What do Bill Bennett and James Carville, Louis Farrakhan and Gennifer Flowers, Don Imus and Bill Moyers have in common? They all wish Andrew Ferguson had never heard of them. For ten years, Ferguson has prowled the fever swamps of American celebrity in search of frauds and mountebanks, and he has not been disappointed."--BOOK JACKET. "This is "celebrity journalism" of an unusually high - and skewed and entertaining - order. But Ferguson also takes his readers beyond mere celebrity to examine the larger social trends and enthusiasms of this hyper-accelerated age. In Fools' Names, Fools' Faces, his first collection of essays, he dissects (and sometimes becomes a reluctant participant in) the quintessentially American fads that the '90s have forced upon us."--BOOK JACKET.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1996.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 213 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0871136511, 9780871136510
- oclc:ocm34564835
- LC Classification:E169.Z82
- Dewey Decimal:306.4/0973
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