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Jon Stewart Says Of His New Book: 'Most Sweeping And Detailed Work About Humanity Yet Put To Paper,"
HILLEL ITALIE | 08/24/10 05:48 AM |
NEW YORK - Jon Stewart is a busy man, a most important man who has no time for such pastimes as reading for pleasure.
Unless, of course, the book is his own.
"It is quite simply, with no disrespect to all of those who have come before us, the most sweeping and detailed work about humanity yet put to paper," he says of the sweepingly titled "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race."
"A lot of people are a little long-winded in their recounting of human history. We do it all in around 256 pages, with illustrations."
Stewart's worldly new work, from the same team that produced the best-selling and relatively local "America (The Book)," foresees civilization's end and summarizes how we looked and what we did, listing our achievements in government, society and culture.
Compared to "Earth," all else is commentary. But other releases this fall should make for worthy supplemental reading about government, society and culture, starting with a favorite subject of "The Daily Show," the American presidency.
At least 10 books will be out on President Obama, a kind of midterm report that includes attacks from the right, attacks from the left and reviews from the middle, like Bob Woodward's latest look inside the White House. Conservative books such as Michael Savage's "Trickle Up Poverty" argue that Obama has a "Marxist-Socialist" agenda. Liberals might agree with "The Mendacity of Hope," by Harper's magazine Editor-In-Chief Roger D. Hodge, who contends that Obama is not a tool of Marx, but of "a well-entrenched corporatist machine."
"His wife (Michelle Obama) was referred to as Marie Antoinette," Stewart said, noting criticism over the first lady's trip to Spain. "Perhaps she's a socialist Marie Antoinette."
George W. Bush will end a self-imposed silence with "Decision Points," scheduled for release right after Election Day. More on the Bush presidency will come from his secretary of state and good friend, Condoleezza Rice, whose "Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me" takes her from childhood to the Bush administration.
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