How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable?
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193483212X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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I read the book In its dealings with economics, politics and on a variety of cultural andsocial issues, this book, in short well-crafted essays, sails effortlesslybetween satire and serious. But even in its more somber moments there is abuoyant tone that keeps things wryly entertaining with thoughtful barbsreminiscent of Mencken.We are awash in blogs and pundits who log the various horse races,offering facile opinions on the headlines of the day. This book offers amore thoughtful take on those self-same issues. Where the pundits live tobang the table, Ball ruminates and cogitates before he speaks. The resultis a hu. True It's true, Norman Ball is not angry at us America, just disappointed; that said, How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable is, I think, not only a really good book but a really good book for you. In assessing one of our more freakish and bewildering periods politically and economically since maybe you tell me, these essays represent some of the most forthright, honest, and thoughtful analysis I have read regarding the current confusion, malaise, and chaos permeating our culture. Ball's prose is exacting and extraordinarily adroit, and he seems remarkably at ease with a wide range of topics, employ. eurogemini said Awesome Christmas Gift!!. I got this for Christmas and while not an essay reader by inclination, I was taken in almost immediately by the wit. Some of the essays are hilarious indictments of business-as-usual in America today. And the titles are priceless: 'It Takes One Child to Raze a Village' and 'The Stalls of Power: Don't Tap, Don't Tell' If I had to characterize the humor, it's Art Buchwald meets Dave Barry. The commentary skirts the facile horse-race stuff that we're blogged to death on nowadays, and delves a lot of subjects deeper than the newspapers. So it's not an easy read. But a rewarding one. I'm halfway through
Undeterred by sneering rent-a-cops and high-voltage fences, Norman Ball hunts down the powerful inside their gated communities. In a style by turns bitingly satiric and deadly serious, he exposes the Red-Blue divide for the sham it is. The much-trumpeted Democrat to Republican transfers of power, then back again, are all hollow gestures full of sound-bite and fury signifying nothing but divide-and-conquer.
About the Author Norman R. Ball
Norman R. Ball