Fools' names, fools' faces /
What do Bill Bennett and James Carville, Louis Farrakhan and Gennifer Flowers, Don Imus and Bill Moyers have in common? They all wish Andrew Ferguson had never heard of them. For ten years, Ferguson has prowled the fever swamps of American celebrity in search of frauds and mountebanks, and he has no...
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
c1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / P. J. O'Rourke
- Court Jester. Hit 'Em Again! Next Question, Please. Nixon's Nemeses. Final Copy. A People Person. My Night with Gennifer. Saying It with Flowers
- Fools' Names, Fools' Faces. Low Profiles. From the Mouth of Babs. Sinatra at Eighty: Scoobee-Doobee-Don't. The Soft-Rock President. I've Got Virtue: Bill Bennett Re-moralizes America All by Himself. The Donald Writes a Book. Bill Moyers and the Power of Myth. Bob McNamara's Brand. Bad Girls Don't Cry
- Public Places. A Sea of Stars. Choice Cuts. Puff the Magic Dragon Goes to Jail. Jesse Jackson's Old Pals. Trust Us: The Mystery of the Supreme Court. The Look That Killed a Congressman. Don Imus's Sacrilege. Newt Gingrich's Opening Day
- Tom Foolery. A Very Unimportant Person. Gorbachev and the Global Brain Trust. Chasing Rainbows. A Coffee Thing. Alice in Cyberland. I'm Terrific, You're Terrific. Dumbing Down.