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"Beinhart takes the triumph of the image maker to new heights."
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Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elaborate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left-coast gumshoe named Broz who is trapped among cover-ups, undercover work, and his own morality, a cast of bicoastal desperate characters, and the stage is set for a powerful D. C. /L. A. production. From Edgar award winning author Larry Beinhart, Wag the Dog was the most brilliant political satire of the last decade. It was made into a classic film by Barry Levinson, and, fortunately, is now back in print.
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Als "American Hero" schrieb Beinhart diesen unglaublichen kurzweiligen Roman in den frühen 1990-ern. Mit dem genialen Film "Wag the Dog - Wenn der Schwanz mit dem Hund wedelt" wurde auch der Name des Buchs angepasst. Doch geht das Buch noch über George Bush den Älteren und hat auch eine andere Handlung - man kann beides genießen. Der Grundgedanke jedoch ist der Gleiche: wie könnte ein perfektes Verschaukeln der Öffentlichkeit aussehen? Oder wie findet es gerade statt? Fast perfektes, denn es gibt einige wenige, ... ach, einfach selbst lesen; verraten wird nichts.
Einen Stern Abzug, weil Beinharts unglaubliche Recherche und Handlungsideen von seinen sprachlichen Fähigkeiten doch nicht immer erreicht werden. Die Ausgestaltung ist eher naja.
Doch wie gesagt, für eine der besten Bücher zum Irakkrieg (dem ersten, vielleicht auch dem zweiten) sind vier Sterne dennoch angebracht.
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Einen Stern Abzug, weil Beinharts unglaubliche Recherche und Handlungsideen von seinen sprachlichen Fähigkeiten doch nicht immer erreicht werden. Die Ausgestaltung ist eher naja.
Doch wie gesagt, für eine der besten Bücher zum Irakkrieg (dem ersten, vielleicht auch dem zweiten) sind vier Sterne dennoch angebracht.
Lesen!
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wag the dog beschreibt und kritisiert die Möglichkeit den Menschen mit Hilfe der Medien zu betrügen bzw. auf eine falsche Spur zu locken. Den Einfälle um diese Vertuschung glaubwürdig zu machen sind genauso abwegig wie genial, ich war beeindruckt.
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Wag the Dog, top notch political satire.
8. Februar 2005
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In its first iteration, Larry Beinhart's satirical novel based on the underlying events that led up to the first Gulf War was titled American Hero. The popular movie, loosely based on the book, was titled Wag the Dog. Now, ten years after its first release, the book has been re-published by Nations Books using the title from the film.
Wag the Dog opens with Jim Baker, advisor to the first President Bush, visiting the dying Lee Atwater, the architect of the Bush victory over Michael Dukakis and a brilliant campaign strategist who was never constrained by ethical considerations. Atwater gives Baker a letter that contains a strategy to save the sagging Bush presidency before the next election. Baker shares the letter and the strategy with the President: a made for television war. Top Hollywood director John Lincoln Beagle is recruited to direct this extravaganza that will be poured into American homes in glorious red, white, blue.
Of course, Beagle's involvement in this project is one of the most carefully guarded secrets in America. His agent puts out the story that he is ill and unavailable. Movie star Meggie Krebs, expecting to be featured in Beagle's next film, suddenly finds that she has been dumped. In an effort to build a breach of contract case, Maggie entices Joe Broz, a security firm consultant, away from his firm to help her gather information. When a former Beagle assistant is murdered, Maggie and Broz realize more is going on than just the avoidance of litigation. Enter the usual suspects: the CIA, the FBI, the military, and assorted contractors and their employees who are directed by high administration officials.
Wag the Dog is an intelligently conceived and skillfully written book. It is a very humorous, engaging read. And although a decade has passed since its first publication, it has as much relevancy and bite as it did when it first appeared. It is an important work of political satire that should be ranked with Animal Farm, Brave New World, and 1984. You will be entertained by the story and disquieted by the fact that our political "reality" has gone beyond the fictive world that some of our most imaginative writers can create.
Wag the Dog opens with Jim Baker, advisor to the first President Bush, visiting the dying Lee Atwater, the architect of the Bush victory over Michael Dukakis and a brilliant campaign strategist who was never constrained by ethical considerations. Atwater gives Baker a letter that contains a strategy to save the sagging Bush presidency before the next election. Baker shares the letter and the strategy with the President: a made for television war. Top Hollywood director John Lincoln Beagle is recruited to direct this extravaganza that will be poured into American homes in glorious red, white, blue.
Of course, Beagle's involvement in this project is one of the most carefully guarded secrets in America. His agent puts out the story that he is ill and unavailable. Movie star Meggie Krebs, expecting to be featured in Beagle's next film, suddenly finds that she has been dumped. In an effort to build a breach of contract case, Maggie entices Joe Broz, a security firm consultant, away from his firm to help her gather information. When a former Beagle assistant is murdered, Maggie and Broz realize more is going on than just the avoidance of litigation. Enter the usual suspects: the CIA, the FBI, the military, and assorted contractors and their employees who are directed by high administration officials.
Wag the Dog is an intelligently conceived and skillfully written book. It is a very humorous, engaging read. And although a decade has passed since its first publication, it has as much relevancy and bite as it did when it first appeared. It is an important work of political satire that should be ranked with Animal Farm, Brave New World, and 1984. You will be entertained by the story and disquieted by the fact that our political "reality" has gone beyond the fictive world that some of our most imaginative writers can create.
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WTC 1993, OKLAHOMA CITY, 9/11: PATTERNS THAT REPEAT
6. Januar 2010
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In a post 9/11 world, where American innocence crumbled into the dust of the World Trade Center, the readers of this book, those of whom have finally come to realize what actually transpired that terrible September day, may be left shaking in their proverbial boots.
That's because the answers to more than one lingering question about the events of 9/11, and the Gulf War which preceded it, lay quietly buried between the pages of 1994's "American Hero", republished a decade (and an emotional eternity) later in 2004 as "Wag The Dog" .
Far from being a comedy, albeit prudently couched as political satire, this book is instead the stuff of nightmares.
After the book's 1994 introduction, a 1997 movie entitled "Wag The Dog", (loosely based on the book and classified as a comedy), was quickly rushed into production and appears to have represented an urgent attempt to quickly marginalize the "right between the eyes" impact of this book.
The book "Wag The Dog", by the extraordinarily prescient Larry Beinhart, is well written, well researched, and highly recommended reading
That's because the answers to more than one lingering question about the events of 9/11, and the Gulf War which preceded it, lay quietly buried between the pages of 1994's "American Hero", republished a decade (and an emotional eternity) later in 2004 as "Wag The Dog" .
Far from being a comedy, albeit prudently couched as political satire, this book is instead the stuff of nightmares.
After the book's 1994 introduction, a 1997 movie entitled "Wag The Dog", (loosely based on the book and classified as a comedy), was quickly rushed into production and appears to have represented an urgent attempt to quickly marginalize the "right between the eyes" impact of this book.
The book "Wag The Dog", by the extraordinarily prescient Larry Beinhart, is well written, well researched, and highly recommended reading
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