{"product_id":"smells-like-dead-elephants-matt-taibbi-9780802170415","title":"Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire","description":"\u003ci\u003eSmells Like Dead Elephants\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, \"a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O'Rourke so much fun\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his \"Road Work\" column in Rolling Stone, \u003ci\u003eSmells Like Dead Elephants\u003c\/i\u003e shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn't just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns's birthday party under disguise as a lobbyist for a fictional oil firm that wants to drill in the Grand Canyon. He floats into apocalyptic post-Katrina New Orleans in a dinghy with Sean Penn. He goes to Iraq as an embedded reporter, where he witnesses the mind-boggling dysfunction of our occupation and spends three nights in Abu Ghraib prison. And he reports from two of the most bizarre and telling trials in recent memory: \u003ci\u003eCalifornia v. Michael Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e and the evolution-vs.-intelligent-design trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Equally funny and shocking, this is excellent work from one of our most entertaining writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matt Taibbi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802170412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802170415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press, Black Cat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.52w x 0.72d","brand":"Matt Taibbi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059741290751,"sku":"9780802170415","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f09f11e-d434-4c6a-b569-7030b3419927.jpg?v=1685060055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smells-like-dead-elephants-matt-taibbi-9780802170415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}