The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder

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W.W. Norton, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 370 pages
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The Bush Dyslexicon is a raucously funny ride—whether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics." But there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and its emphatic emptiness, says Miller, could a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land.

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Miller (media studies, New York Univ.; Boxed In: The Culture of TV) suggests that Americans may be suffering from a corporate form of dyslexia: "Seeing that it's all gone wrong, yet always hearing ... Read full review

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Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University.

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