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Downsize This!
Random Threats from an Unarmed American
by Michael Moore
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Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed
American
by Michael Moore
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- Paperback:
336 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.78 x 8.02 x 5.32
- Publisher: Harper
Perennial; ISBN: 0060977337; (September 1997)

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Who says the left wing doesn't have a sense of humor? Maybe it doesn't,
but documentarian Michael Moore sure does--Exhibit A was Roger & Me;
B was the ill-fated TV Nation; and C is 1997's print skirmish Downsize
This!
Moore's politics are
rabidly liberal, populist, and anti-big business--about what you'd expect
from the former editor of Mother Jones. While this restricts his
audience to Americans on the left side of the aisle, for them Downsize
This! will be a chance to point and laugh hysterically (if ruefully)
at the clique of rich white guys who run everything.
Moore is at his best as a prankster, whether it's trying to see if
Pat Buchanan will take a campaign donation from the John Wayne Gacy Fan
Club (yes) or whether he can have Bob Dornan committed to an insane asylum
based on his bizarre behavior (no, but it was close).
Moore is one of our sharpest satirists, and Downsize This!
makes one wish he would write a "Sorry State of the Union" every
year. But only if it doesn't cut into his moviemaking--that's too big a
price to pay. --Michael Gerber
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