Dude, Where's My Country?

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: D. David Morin

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

He is the scourge of Stupid White Men everywhere. He's taken on fat cats, gun nuts, lying politicians. The Guardian describes him as "a wake-up call, a kick in the mental backside". And now Michael Moore is back, daring to ask the most urgent question of these perilous times: Dude, Where's My Country?

Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: regime change. The man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy's oil buddies is one of the many targets in Mike's blistering follow-up to his smash number one Stupid White Men, the biggest selling nonfiction book of the year. Now no one is safe: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security", and even that right-wing brother-in-law of yours (yes, we all have one) who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner.

Fearless, funny and furious, Michael Moore's new book is the call to arms we've all been waiting for, the kind of book that comes along once every so often that rallies citizens with humor and insight and changes the course of the country.

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Critic reviews

"Moore focuses on issues." ( Publishers Weekly)

Understand

The time is coming when you will choose a side. Which side are you on? The militia is strong and the government grows more untrustworthy every day. I am not speaking of Anarchy dont get me wrong. Anarchy would have us the target of every nation (even so called alies)Just for saying this I could be investigated without even being told ever searches without probable cause and stuff. If they do and i find out it will just prove my point. ...which side are you on

I am politically to the left - this is just bad

Don't dismiss this as simple political disagreement disguised as a review. I agree with most of Moore's politics and still found this book painful. Just for the record, I love Al Franken, Moore's previous book was fine, and I certainly wonder where my country is.

What's wrong with this book? It is not all that entertaining. In fact, it was so tedious that I worried about dozing off when listening in the car (though much of the blame there goes to the near-monotone reading). That would be acceptable if it were informative, but there is basically nothing there that someone who actively follows the political news (not including Fox, of course) does not already know. If you don't know it, get a book of investigative reporting - it will be more accurate and thorough and no less entertaining.

The book contains a fair number of factual errors (I am a professor and have some expertise in some of the matters discussed) and is needlessly and embarassingly demagogic in places. There are so many good criticisms of the current powers that be, so why make silly weak ones. On top of everything else, this is the worst reading of an audiobook I have heard. The reader takes all the character out of what should at least be lively prose and doesn't even know how to pronounce all the names of the major political figures mentioned.

Weak content, borning book, terribly reading. Try Al Franken instead.

IMPORTANT

Important read if you make less than $250,000 a year. Found it entertaining and enlightening.

Dude, where's your fact-checker?

It's a shame that books are published based on how far-out there they can get. Of course, the publisher makes money, but the public is deceived. It doesn't take much work to discredit Moore's assertions. He is super-opinionated, but he is not a reputatable journalist. He is a film-maker without much of an education. Who is he to criticize?

Dude where is common sense ?????????

It is very easy to criticize the government and make oposition. But at no time does the author provide suggestions on what the government should actually do. Where is the alternative plan ? I don't like beeing at war at all. No one should. But I'm greatful for our troops who are fighting terrorism keeping out of our country.

The best political book of the year

I found this to be even better than Stupid White Men.
Michael Moore has done his homework. He raises the questions that so many of us want to ask, and he has a gift for exposing the true motives of the highly suspect Bush and company.
Truly excellent book.

a different angle

moore speaks free and frank...he must have been in a rush, when writing this book, because many passages are not as sharp as one would expect from him...none the less m.moore spins the post 9/11 events in a fresh angle that serves as a healthy counterbalance of current white house propaganda.

Dude, Where's My Country? (Unabridged)

This country needs more common sense. Not only is this book provide new insights and FACTS, it is humorous as well.

are you sure?

I'm not sure this book was placed in the correct category. It should be in the fiction section.

Trash

Where are the facts? Paranoid rantings are not facts. Don't waste your time on this one if you beleive in truth.