Synopses & Reviews
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"Snot-nosed Europeans think we Americans are dumber than bricks just because we dont know Zimbabwe from Zinfandel. Now Rossis slipping us the crib notes so we can palaver with the best of them. World-dumb to world-savvy in 400 pages what a bargain: buy two and send one to the President." Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
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"Possession of this book is like having at ones beck and call an exceptionally smart, funny, knowledgeable and well-travelled friend. Rossis compact guide to a world on the brink of catastrophic detonation is lucid, stylish, rich in common sense, engagingly browsable, and I pray someone will have the wit to park a copy in every White House bathroom." Jonathan Raban, author of Arabia and Bad Land: An American Romance
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"M.L.Rossi is the post-millennial Lewis and Clark, sending artful missives to us in What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World of what and where our country has gotten into....At a time when CNN and McDonalds have shrunk the world to the size of a postage stamp, Rossi returns the planet to a proper scale, with prose ranking with Paul Therouxs travel writing and Murray Kemptons political commentary." Neal Karlen, author of Slouching Toward Fargo
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"Tell me, do you know the difference between Khomeini and Qaddafi? A Hutu and a Tutsi? M. L. Rossi rides the rescue, spelling out What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World and not a moment too soon..." Elissa Schappell, Hot Type, June 2003 Vanity Fair