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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780446580502 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Stephen Colbert is America — and since we live in America, we must also live in him. Think long and hard about that as you devour this book which should be required reading for all Americans, and by "Americans" I mean "Stephen Colbert's body parts."
Recommended by Brockman, Powells.com
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Stephen Colbert describes his book as a simple book from a simple mind — Stephen Colbert. It is one man's attempt to wedge his brain between hardback covers. In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt and/or whistle, Stephen explains his take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: Faith, Family...Hygiene.
Why write this book now? Stephen fears America has lost its balls. He hopes to re-ballify us. Even the ladies. Ladies can have balls — lady-balls. Stephen likes to call those "Thatchers." Stephen will show how he got his mammoth swinging sack, with tales of courage and vital documents from his own life: the Mother's Day card he made at age six, disputed credit card bills, putt-putt score cards — all the major milestones.
The book will be cleverly designed to be a high status, uber-important collector's item with first editions including a Christmas DVD of "Stephen and Friends" singing original Christmas tunes. Don't buy this book if you don't have any balls! But if you do buy it, you will get them, and then you can buy another copy with a clean conscience.
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From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You ) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.
Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.
Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones.
You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.
I Am America (And So Can You ) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long.
Please buy this book before you leave the store
About the Author
His personality, insight and overall rightness could only lead to The Colbert Report, a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his take on the issues of the day, and, more importantly, to tell you why everyone else's take is just plain wrong. The show has been hugely successful.
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Luke, January 13, 2008 (view all comments by Luke)
From the moment I picked up the book, I was hooked. Imagine the best comic political commentary. Now, were one to distill that, and then formulate paper from the essence, this book would be written upon the sheets. And if you like the book, I can't stress enough how much you will love the audiobook as well.
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StephenWright, November 27, 2007 (view all comments by StephenWright)
Stephen Colbert forces us to follow the words of Christ. He has also shared with us the complete transcript of his speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. As you may recall, his remarks underminded not only Bush, but the entire D.C. elite. Given that he cut so close to the bone of his audience that the next year they invited Rich Little to be the "keynote" entertainer so that there would be no "danger" of anyone saying anything relevant or critical of the elite in D.C.
Colbert concludes the reason he wrote the book was because he fears America has lost its "ba11s". He claims he has written a constitution for the Colbert Nation, and agrees we may not agree with everything he had to say. But at the very least, we will understand that our differing opinion is wrong. Thanks Stephen Colbert! I would also recommend, if you missed reading TINO GEORGIOU'S masterpiece--THE FATES, go and read it. With fascinating and brilliantly created characters in `THE FATES' coupled with two intertwining plots makes for a completely enjoyable and page-turning read.
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JCBunnell, October 11, 2007 (view all comments by JCBunnell)
Actually, Colbert appears to have scammed Powell's out of $8 (a TV news report quotes a Powell's spokesperson to the effect that they sent him a check). In most cases, an author gets the same royalty whether the retailer sells his book at list price or discounts it, and the usual royalty on a $26.99 trade hardcover is $2.16 to $4.05 (which he will in fact get from his publisher on that very copy of the book, six months to a year from now, assuming he's earned out his advance). Thus, if he cashes that $8 check, you can make a case that Colbert has successfully committed extortion on national television.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780446580502
- Subtitle:
- and So Can You!
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Grand Central Publishing
- Subject:
- Topic - Political
- Subject:
- Form - Essays
- Subject:
- American wit and humor
- Subject:
- United states
- Copyright:
- 2007
- Edition Number:
- 1st
- Publication Date:
- October 9, 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 230
- Dimensions:
- 9.62x7.27x.94 in. 1.54 lbs.
