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beachsinger, October 28, 2008 (view all comments by beachsinger)
Hey, Lionel!

I've been listening to you for years and love your ascerbic wit. Can't WAIT to read your book!! I'm sure it will enlighten and educate me.

I worked for McCarthy (Eugene, that is) when he ran against Nixon (even though I was too young to vote at the time). I turned 18 the day of the election!! Prior to that, I actually went to the City Clerk's office in Stamford, CT and got a meeting with the City Clerk himself and BEGGED him to allow me to vote and he denied me because the law stated I had to turn 18 2 months prior to the election (or something like that - can't remember exactly - I'll be 54 on November 6).

Anyway - can't wait to read your book!! You really rock on radio and have a lot of really insightful things to say.

Laura in Fleetwood, PA

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wyatt, August 4, 2008 (view all comments by wyatt)
Lionel's book title includes a nearly direct quote from the 1931 Universal Pictures film Dracula, as I recall. In it there is a bit of comic relief in which one bit player says to the other, in a cockney accent, "Sometimes I think they're all crazy, except you and me. And sometimes I have me doubts about you."

It's a title that reflects the times. The last eight years we have been living in a metaphorical vampire movie, with more blood being sucked out of us daily. Disastrous national debt, failed 'trickle down" economic policy, a horrible war that we were lied into, world opinion turned against us...God save us from John McCain. I look forward to the book.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781401303662

Subtitle:

America's Favorite Contrarian Cuts Loose

Author:

Lionel

Publisher:

Hyperion Books

Subject:

General

Subject:

Entertainment & Performing Arts - General

Subject:

Entertainment & Performing Arts

Subject:

Form - Essays

Subject:

American wit and humor

Publication Date:

August 2008

Binding:

Hardcover

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

254

Dimensions:

8.56x6.30x.88 in. .89 lbs.

Age Level:

from Al to l0