Beating Around The Bush

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Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald returns undaunted to examine the ridiculous people and preposterous events that Americans call their daily reality. Collected from his recent columns, with a foreword by Garry Trudeau, Buchwald's satirical voice darts at politicians, power, corporations and the media without pause. A self-described troublemaker Buchwald continues to represent the great traits of scepticism, humour and a refusal to compromise in the face of absurdity.

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"Buchwald has single-handedly restored humour to contemporary journalism" - Los Angeles Times "Buchwald is a pitiless chronicler of human folly, particularly as it manifests itself in public officials; the targets of his satire are pretension, inconsistency and hypocrisy. He makes his readers laugh out loud, then leaves them wondering whether what they laughed at might not equally well have made them weep." - Library Journal"

Author Bio

Art Buchwald has written 32 books, including two children's books and two novels. His most recent novel is Stella in Heaven (Putnam, 2000) and his most recent collection is We'll Laugh Again (Putnam, 2002). He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for "Outstanding Commentary" in 1982 and in 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.