Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Bill Maher:

New Rules, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden, August 2005
Paperback (reprint)
New Rules, July 2005
Hardcover

When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden
Bill Maher

What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Phoenix Books
August 2005
On Sale: August 1, 2005
132 pages
ISBN: 1597775134
EAN: 9781597775137
Paperback (reprint)
Add to Wish List

Non-Fiction Political

A book with original new posters for America's new war… from Bill Maher…that takes some explaining! In a nutshell…these are posters with messages of how everyone can do things to help fight future terrorism, the kind of posters our government SHOULD be making and plastering everywhere.

Since we live in an era where pandering is expected and therefore essential to politics, the American government no longer asks citizens to sacrifice, as it did in World War I, World War II and during the Cold War. In posters from those eras we see a government unafraid to call upon its people to curb travel, save tin, buy bonds or plant a garden.

Maher has looked through books of these old posters (several will be reprinted at the beginning of the book), and some from 60 or 80 years ago are eerily perfect for today's struggle. "Should brave men die so you can drive?" Our government does not make that same link for its citizens today, although it is just as true. Rather the current administration spent government millions on an ad campaign we've all seen, "I helped the terrorists by doing drugs," even though drugs fund a negligible amount of terrorist activity and oil, ultimately, almost all of it. Whenever somebody tells Maher that drugs fund terrorism, he always says, "It's SUVs that fund terrorism." That, and messages like that, is what these posters say. How can we think differently and act differently to live safer in a better world.

This is a practical book - chock-full of things that can actually be done. When we become smarter, more caring, less materialistic, less myopic and greedy…we will win. We will all win! Maher says, "Since I'm NOT the government, some of my posters exhort us to put the kind of pressure on the government itself that would result for example, in airport security personnel with at least a high school diploma."

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!