Bibliograph

Smells like dead elephants, dispatches from a rotting empire, Matt Taibbi

Type

Label

Smells like dead elephants, dispatches from a rotting empire, Matt Taibbi

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Smells like dead elephants

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Matt Taibbi

Sub title

dispatches from a rotting empire

Summary

Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his Road Work" column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn't just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns's birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent memory: California volume Michael Jackson and the evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent work from one of our most entertaining writers

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Dispatches from a rotting empire

Classification