You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politic (Record no. 4045)
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| LC control number | 98017698 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780679404460 |
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| Standard number or code | 37675724 |
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| Classification number | E885 |
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| Classification number | 973.929 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Molly Ivins |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politic |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Random House |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 244 pages |
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| Summary, etc. | It's been five years since Molly Ivins's last book, which is probably too long a time in the opinion of her many fans. But the intervening years have given the bestselling author and syndicated columnist some of the best raw material a political writer could ask for. The Republicans staged a revolution, Clinton was reelected, welfare "deform" swept the country, and the militia movement came out of the bunker: in short, it's been a banner time for Molly's brand of shoot-from-the-hip commentary and uproarious anecdotes. You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You brings together a first-class collection of smart, spirited, and fiercely funny writings. From the wild and woolly politics of her native Texas to the waffling in the Oval Office, Molly exposes the fatuous and hypocritical at all levels of public life. Whether she's writing about the 1996 presidential candidates ("Dole contributed perhaps the funniest line of the year with his immortal observation that tobacco is not addictive but that too much milk might be bad for us. The check from the dairy lobby must have been late that week"), conspiracy theorists ("Twenty-five years in the newspaper bidness have given me a fairly strong faith in the proposition that if you haven't read about it in The Daily Disappointment or seen it on the network news, it's probably not true"), or cultural trends ("I saw a restaurant in Seattle that specialized in latte and barbecue. Barbecue and latte. I came home immediately"), Molly takes on the issues of the day with her trademark good sense and inimitable wit. "I can think of few causes more important than keeping free voices alive in a world of corporate media," Molly writes. She is one of those voices and a national treasure; as the Los Angeles Times put it, she is "H. L. Mencken without the cruelty, Will Rogers with an agenda." Whatever your political persuasion, you're bound to agree that Molly Ivins is one of the sharpest and most original commentators on the American scene today. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History - U.S. |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 973.927 IVINS | 49508 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |