132,582
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchZeitoun by Dave Eggers (view source)
Revision as of 15:46, 1 September 2020
, 15:46, 1 September 2020no edit summary
{{infoboxinfobox1
|title=Zeitoun
|author=Dave Eggers
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=352
|publisher=Hamish Hamilton
|date=March 2010
|isbn=978-0241144848
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk>1934781630|amazonusaznuk=<amazonus>0241144841</amazonus>1934781630|aznus=1934781630
}}
Flicking through the channels on the TV the other night I stumbled across an interview with George Bush's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-CV1ifS4 Ln5RD9BhcCo here]. It really is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned to weightier matters, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror and the Bush administrations administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Needless to say the American right's very own Prince of Darkness was robust in his defence of the Republican Party's handling of both situations. His emphatic response to what happened in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina particularly caught my eye as I'd just finished Dave Eggers' non fiction novelisation of the disaster in his rather excellent new book Zeitoun. To say that the two accounts contradict one another is something of an understatement.
Zeitoun's story says much about America under Bush and Dave Eggers deserves credit for telling it so well. Given the choice between his version of events and that of Karl Rove I know who I'd choose to believe.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to The Bookbag. We also have a review of [[The Wild Things by Dave Eggers]].
If this appeals whu , why not have a look at [[Interventions by Noam Chomsky]]?
{{amazontext|amazon=0241144841}} {{waterstonestextamazonUStext|waterstonesamazon=71473161934781630}}
{{commenthead}}
