Sure to appeal to Onion fans and anyone unhappy with our current president.
A founding editor of the Onion provides a satirical guide to surviving Donald Trump’s America.
In a book that was previously published in 2016 as Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide, Dikkers and his formidable team of contributors deliver 170 pages of hilarity very much in the mold of other Onion-related books, including Our Dumb Century and Our Dumb World. Packed with photographs, infographics, vintage-looking newspaper and magazine clippings, graphs, sidebars, lists, and all the other visual elements in the Onion’s bag of tricks, the book will find plenty of laughs among the anti-Trump crowd. Dikkers and company cover all the possible attack points, taking the president to task for narcissism, misogyny, xenophobia, racism, and everything else that has made Trump such a focal point of anger and endless controversy. Chapters include “The World Community: Un-American” and “The Environment: Hippie Crap,” and the satire is relentless and consistently spot-on. Among the items “To Be Thrown Out of the White House on Day One” are “Obama’s Koran” and “any administrative assistant over 26.” Trump’s proposed citizenship exam includes such entries as, “Are you from Mexico? If yes, describes what makes you one of the good ones.” Throughout the book, Dikkers takes aim at Trump’s obsessive, ridiculous Twitter habits, with such “Top Trump Tweets” as “I will never donate blood because I made it and it’s mine” and “I’m refusing the pathetic presidential salary. Will donate every penny to breast enhancement research. #charity.” The funniest spread may be “Donald Trump’s World Map,” which shows the president’s alleged thoughts on dozens of areas around the world: India includes “smelly food” and “50 million IT guys,” while Russia features “very nice KGB friends,” and Africa is known for “birthplace of Barack Obama,” “animals that look like rugs,” and “Melania’s diamonds.” While it can be argued that most of this material preaches to the choir, it’s a damned funny sermon, just the thing to while away the time until the next outrage.
Sure to appeal to Onion fans and anyone unhappy with our current president.Pub Date: Feb. 21, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5011-7267-0
Page Count: 168
Publisher: Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: Feb. 21, 2017
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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