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The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures
Hyperion Books
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
240 pages
ISBN: 1401323944
EAN: 9781401323943
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Humor
This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics,
but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside
these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the
scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought
about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have
your mind blown. Sorry, that s the introduction to Willie Geist s next book
the culmination of his life s work. Look for it next spring,
just in time for Mother s Day. This book is about his other
passion: freaks. When he s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC s
Morning Joe sifting through the wreckage of American
politics and popular culture. These days, that s a big job.
With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a
national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the
White House, with the world s most famous athlete now
associated less with the Masters and more with the
strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to
ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and
child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist s business is thriving. In his hilarious first book, American Freak Show, Geist
takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television
audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters
who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in
completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that
far from reality. Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin s
unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE s
Monday Night Raw after her renegade victory in the 2012
election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin style
welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell,
with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist
provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts
of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone
conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
And George W. Bush s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed
plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for
the first time. From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the
Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild
American Freak Show. You ll laugh out loud while weeping for
the future of America.
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