Format:
Book
Title:
Fools' names, fools' faces / Andrew Ferguson ; with an introduction by P.J. O'Rourke.
Author:
Ferguson, Andrew, 1956-
Call Number:
306.40973 F381fo
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1996.
Description:
xvii, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Popular culture -- United States.
Fads -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Contents:
Introduction / P. J. O'Rourke -- Court Jester. Hit 'Em Again! Next Question, Please. Nixon's Nemeses. Final Copy. A People Person. My Night with Gennifer. Saying It with Flowers -- Fools' Names, Fools' Faces. Low Profiles. From the Mouth of Babs. Sinatra at Eighty: Scoobee-Doobee-Don't. The Soft-Rock President. I've Got Virtue: Bill Bennett Re-moralizes America All by Himself. The Donald Writes a Book. Bill Moyers and the Power of Myth. Bob McNamara's Brand. Bad Girls Don't Cry -- Public Places. A Sea of Stars. Choice Cuts. Puff the Magic Dragon Goes to Jail. Jesse Jackson's Old Pals. Trust Us: The Mystery of the Supreme Court. The Look That Killed a Congressman. Don Imus's Sacrilege. Newt Gingrich's Opening Day -- Tom Foolery. A Very Unimportant Person. Gorbachev and the Global Brain Trust. Chasing Rainbows. A Coffee Thing. Alice in Cyberland. I'm Terrific, You're Terrific. Dumbing Down.
ISBN:
0871136511