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Title: American Civ for Dummies
Review: Chris MATTHEWS' latest "book," once again, is small format, large type with wide margins, lots of blank pages, and pictures. 208 pages, 25 lines per page, 9 words to the line. He said on one of his snake-oil sales interviews that "The word 'I' NEVER APPEARS." It was a fantastic assertion coming from this ego-maniac---and---it's a lie. The infernal "I" is there from the Prologue and Chapter 1 on. The whole thing is a re-hash of selected cliches in American Civilization 101 courses out there. And, sublimating his 3-years' hit-job on Al GORE here, without the "I", his slant on President GORE in the 2000 Campaign was that this was the time for a Common Man and "there wasn't one" and that "most people voted for him but they didn't want to hang out with him for four years." At least this weak product isn't on the best seller list---yet.
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