Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone to Michael Moore (EE) - Couverture souple

Moore, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141021780 ISBN 13 : 9780141021782

Editeur : Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

Letters from service people and their families to Michael Moore from Iraq and Afghanistan together with an introduction by Michael Moore

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended Catholic schools, including a year in the seminary, which he says accounts for his healthy respect for the fires of hell which seem to be located somewhere just outside Crawford, Texas.
He was an Eagle Scout, Newspaper Boy of the Week, and the youngest person ever elected to public office in the state of Michigan when he was 18-years old.
Michael Moore is now the Oscar and Emmy-winning director of the groundbreaking and record-setting films Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Fahrenheit 9/11 (which also won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and has gone on to become the highest grossing documentary of all time.)
No Disney film this year has made as much at the box office as Fahrenheit 9/11. It became the first documentary ever to premier at number one in the box-office in its opening weekend. Film Comment has called it "The Film of the Year."
Michael Moore is also America's #1 selling nonfiction author with such books as Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, and Dude, Where's My Country. No other author has spent more weeks on the New York Times hardcover non-fiction list in the past two years than Michael Moore. Stupid White Men was also awarded Britain's top book honor, "British Book of the Year," the first time the award has been bestowed on an American author.
Michael now has two new books being published by Simon & Schuster: Will They Ever Trust Us Again -- Letters from the War Zone, which is a compilation of letters he has received from soldiers in Iraq and from their families back home; and The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader, which contains loads of backup materials for the film, plus essays, and the film's screenplay.
In addition to winning the Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore won the Emmy Award for his NBC and Fox series, TV Nation and was also nominated for his other series, The Awful Truth (which the L.A. Times called "the smartest and funniest show on TV.")
Michael Moore also wrote and directed the comedy feature Canadian Bacon starring the late John Candy, and the BBC documentary, The Big One. He has directed music videos for R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, Neil Young, and System of a Down.
His other best-selling books include Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, and Adventures in a TV Nation, which he co-wrote with his wife Kathleen Glynn. His books have been translated in over 30 languages, and have gone to #1 in Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Michael currently spends his time reading, gardening, and removing George W. Bush from the White House.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda. He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by revealing what they didn't want you to know about the war on terror in Fahrenheit 9/11. Now the ordinary men and women - from GIs serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, mothers and wives at home, veterans who've fought around the globe - who've been inspired to speak out by Michael Moore have their say. Their views vary from the Bushwhacked to the patriotic, but they all feel let down by government, they know the human cost of waging wars for the rich - and they've had enough. Angry, moving and funny, this book shows who's really winning the battle for hearts and minds on the front line... 'Devastating ... his best book to date ... it is the dissenting voices of America's soldiers and their family members and friends that give this book its weight and power'
  Sunday Times 'Heart-rending ... damning'
  Daily Mirror 'Hard-hitting'
  Guardian Author of international bestsellers Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country, Michael Moore's 2002 film Bowling for Columbine won the Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary. His 2004 film Fahrenheit 9-11 won the 2004 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko, focused on the American healthcare system, was also nominated for an Oscar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141021780
• ISBN 13: 9780141021782
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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