{"product_id":"9781668003893","title":"Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e BESTSELLER * \u003ci\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER *\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBestselling author Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS \u003ci\u003eSunday Morning\u003c\/i\u003e), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in modern American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Millions of fans and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e readers enjoy his satirical news column “The Borowitz Report.” Now, in \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e, he delivers “a wittily alarming polemic that tracks the evolution of American politics from grounds for gravitas to festival of idiocy” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBorowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfiles in Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn’t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.","brand":"Avid Reader Press \/ Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370187264061,"sku":"9781668003893","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781668003893_p0.jpg?v=1771576915","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781668003893","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}