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Notes from contributing bloggers
“The reason to buy the book is for the incredible writings of the other included blogs, all on the same topic and in one place, seamlessly arranged.” Body and Soul: “. . . although I've championed blog writing for years, I was actually stunned by how good the writing is, and how relevant the posts are, even years after some of them were first written. There's a lot of crisply and entertainingly covered information packed into a short space.” Lean Left: “If blogs really are going to be a new kind of citizen journalism or a modern version of the Enlightenment’s pamphleteers, then books like this will help pave the way.” Road to Surfdom: “I'm sure it is the start of a trend that will see publishers recognise not only that the blogosphere can bring some new voices into the mix but that there already exists a wealth of material out there in the archives that deserves more mainstream recognition.” |
Untidy: The Blogs
on Rumsfeld
Selected
and with an
introductory essay
by Tom Sumner
This collection of critical commentary examines Rumsfeld’s oversight of the U.S. military, dissects his speech patterns, look at the effects of privatizing the military, examines the ongoing prisoner abuse/torture scandal, and exposes the effects of Rumsfeld’s policies.
Taken as a whole, these blog posts tell a lively and informative story of one of the most powerful men in the country.
- “A collection of the best of the blogs
on the Don of Defense, Untidy skewers Rumsfeld on a spit
and rolls him over the coals slowly. Not surprisingly, once thoroughly
lambasted, Rumsfeld tastes just like chicken. Ranging from the
comically mundane (Rumsfeld’s incomprehensible literary
crimes) to the violently tragic (the horrors of Abu Ghraib and
Rumsfeld’s flippant attitude toward the long-suffering Iraqis),
the book explores the mind and—well, the mind, anyway, of
the intransigent junior-architect of the War on Terror. It’s
terra infirma, this book will assure you.”
—Joel Preston Smith,
war correspondent & photographer
Contents
Preface - Table of Contents
Part One: The Stuff of Rumsfeld (view pages 1–6
)
Part Two: The Bloggers’ Rumsfeld
Afterword: The Ear of an Aviator: Looking Ahead
About
the Bloggers
- “Rumsfeld is a frustrating
fellow, a guy whose appearance of straight-shooting gusto masks
a deeply nasty megalomaniacal and ideologically oriented mean-streak.
He's great at PR, which makes this myth-busting book even more
essential.”
—Matt Stoller, co-founder, BOP News
- “Here’s Rumsfeld truly exposed at last . . . by Rumsfeld! There is no quarreling with the man’s own words. They speak, alas, all too perfectly for themselves.”
—Jack Miles,
Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer