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Smells Like Dead Elephants
Matt Taibbi
Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Grove Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 10, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0802170412
EAN: 9780802170415
Hardcover
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Smells Like Dead Elephants is a brilliant collection from
Matt Taibbi, “a political reporter with the gonzo spirit
that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O’Rourke so much fun”
(The Washington Post). Bringing together Taibbi’s most
incisive and hilarious work from his “Road Work” column in
Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an
unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and
sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say
about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the
rest, but he doesn’t just hit inside the Beltway. He gets
involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns’s
birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional
oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats
into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with
Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he
witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation
and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports
from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent
memory: California v. Michael Jackson and the
evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent
work from one of our most entertaining writers.
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