Forgive Us Our Spins: Michael Moore and the Future of the Left by Jesse Larner Reviewed by Jamie Malanowski
Washington Monthly
"Jesse Larner is a learned writer of an unquestionably intellectual bent who has contributed articles to the Nation and appears on NPR and the BBC. He has just written a solid, thoroughly researched, amply annoted book called Forgive Us Our Spins: Michael Moore and the Future of the American Left, in which he examines Moore as a person, writer, filmmaker, and thinker, and in all respects finds him wanting. Larner portrays Moore as an influential political figure who commands a large audience, but whose work is fatally flawed by methodological liberties that the arrogant, narcissistic Moore felt free to take...." Read the entire Washington Monthly review.