It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America Hardcover - 2007
by Jack Cafferty
Popular CNN commentator Jack Cafferty takes on the no-good, the bad, and the ugly in America today. From Bush to big business, from the Beltway to Baghdad, from Hurricane Katrina to House Speaker Pelosi, from Tehran to Tel Aviv, no subject is immune from Caffertys trademark sardonic, curmudgeonly, right-on scrutiny in his first bookJohn Wiley & Sons
From the rear cover
In his daily "Cafferty File" segments on CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty focuses on the high, the mighty, and the often mindless public figures in politics and corporate America who think they can hoodwink the great American middle class indefinitely and get away with it. Millions of people watch him, feeling that he expresses their own concerns. Now, in his first book, Cafferty kicks his outrage into high gear with a brilliant condemnation of some of the most egregious and infuriating boondoggles, screw-ups, and swindles ever perpetrated on the American public. With both logic and heart, he assesses the ongoing damage done to our American democracy by the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, illegal immigration, cowboy diplomacy, and the media that have often been all too willing to overlook or even encourage these nightmares.
While his sights are set primarily on President George W. Bush and his team--Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, Brownie, and many more--Cafferty is an equal-opportunity curmudgeon. With the same intensity, he goes after the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU, and some causes beloved by liberals while sizing up the leading candidates for the 2008 presidential race.Cafferty argues that those in power are so isolated from the rest of the population and so indebted to the corporations, lobbyists, and tycoons who finance their campaigns and hire them when they leave office that they simply don't have a clue what life is like for most Americans and don't care enough to find out. Cafferty does care--and he shows it. It's Getting Ugly Out There shares many of the thoughtful, hilarious, perceptive, and moving e-mail messages from viewers of the "Cafferty File." These include some of the unprecedented thousands of e-mails received by CNN in the two days following Cafferty's resounding denunciation of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina--the ultimate example of indifference to the plight of citizens in desperate straits.
Passionate, controversial, and in your face, It's Getting Ugly Out There is a rarity among current-affairs books--a searing, hard-hitting critique of the powers that be, not from the left or the right, but straight from the heart of a proud mainstream American.From the jacket flap
In his daily "Cafferty File" segments on CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty focuses on the high, the mighty, and the often mindless public figures in politics and corporate America who think they can hoodwink the great American middle class indefinitely and get away with it. Millions of people watch him, feeling that he expresses their own concerns. Now, in his first book, Cafferty kicks his outrage into high gear with a brilliant condemnation of some of the most egregious and infuriating boondoggles, screw-ups, and swindles ever perpetrated on the American public. With both logic and heart, he assesses the ongoing damage done to our American democracy by the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, illegal immigration, cowboy diplomacy, and the media that have often been all too willing to overlook or even encourage these nightmares.
While his sights are set primarily on President George W. Bush and his team--Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, Brownie, and many more--Cafferty is an equal-opportunity curmudgeon. With the same intensity, he goes after the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU, and some causes beloved by liberals while sizing up the leading candidates for the 2008 presidential race.Cafferty argues that those in power are so isolated from the rest of the population and so indebted to the corporations, lobbyists, and tycoons who finance their campaigns and hire them when they leave office that they simply don't have a clue what life is like for most Americans and don't care enough to find out. Cafferty does care--and he shows it. It's Getting Ugly Out There shares many of the thoughtful, hilarious, perceptive, and moving e-mail messages from viewers of the "Cafferty File." These include some of the unprecedented thousands of e-mails received by CNN in the two days following Cafferty's resounding denunciation of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina--the ultimate example of indifference to the plight of citizens in desperate straits.
Passionate, controversial, and in your face, It's Getting Ugly Out There is a rarity among current-affairs books--a searing, hard-hitting critique of the powers that be, not from the left or the right, but straight from the heart of a proud mainstream American.Details
- Title It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America
- Author Jack Cafferty
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York
- Date 2007-09-01
- ISBN 9780470144794 / 0470144793
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.55 x 6.38 x 1.02 in (24.26 x 16.21 x 2.59 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Bush, George W
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007029083
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.931
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Citations
- Library Journal, 08/13/2007, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 165
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