Monday, January 06, 2003

Roger's Bookbag

For those who consider Who Moved My Cheese? too intellectually demanding....

For those who think reading Truly Tasteless Jokes while evacuating their bowels is multitasking....

Here, via TBogg, is the perfect book for you:

"The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush: 10 Common Sense Lessons from the Commander-in-Chief"
Yes, George Bush is the latest hero in the genre that made extra-wide margins, bullet points and two-sentence paragraphs obscenely profitable.

I'm not going to bash Bush here, since he has nothing to do with the book. (Of course, he had nothing to do with A Charge to Keep either, but that's another poorly written story.) I'm going to bash the publisher of this worthy volume, John Wiley & Sons. The book hasn't even been printed yet, and it's already crap. Witness the dust jacket copy:
If, according to Abigail Adams, "great necessities call forth great leaders," then George W. Bush has displayed a natural ability to lead.
What?!? That makes no sense. None.
From owner of the Texas Rangers to President of the United States, these principles have propelled George W. Bush to the top and can do the same for you:
Incredible. Wiley & Sons should be ashamed to have its name on something so poorly written.

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