Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python
by Terry Jones
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Terry Jones is known the world over as one of the beloved creators of the legendary Monty Python. But independent of the Python team, Jones has been writing columns targeting the Anglo-American response to September 11. His wit and venom are particularly focused on the messianic vernacular of Bush and Blair and the semantics of the "war on terror." As Jones writes, "What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? ... show more How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender." Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror proves that in times of high political anxiety, humor and irony are most potent antidotes to the spin emanating from the White House and Downing Street. show lessTags
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L'ex-Monty Python Terry Jones offre là une série de satires politiques d'une grande intelligence et avec un humour sans pareil. Polémiste hors pair, il démontre qu'une bonne dérision vaut mieux qu'un long discours pour démonter les arguments de la "guerre contre le terrorisme".Principal défaut de ce livre, ces chroniques ont été publiées dans divers journaux et l'auteur a tendance à se répéter d'un texte à l'autre. Cependant, certaines d'entre elles sont mémorables, dont le dialogue imaginaire entre Dieu et George W Bush.
That’s the same Terry Jones from Monty Python fame, and this is a collection of essays he wrote protesting the US/UK response to 9/11 – largely by making fun of it. Gets a bit repetitive (which happens when you collect columns written a few weeks apart for a daily newspaper audience), but Jones really does a good job of summing up all of the outrageous shenanigans of Team Bush and Tony Blair. Note that he was doing this a couple of years before most of the US media.
Why does it always take a comedian to tell the truth? Great book.
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Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales on February 1, 1942. He was a writer for such BBC programs as The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set, before joining with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin to form the Monty Python comedy troupe. Best remembered as the nude organist, Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy show more Grail (1975), and directed Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983). Along with many Python-related books, screenplays, and records, he has written several non-fiction works including Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary, Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery, and Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror. He also wrote numerous children's books including The Saga of Erik the Viking, which won the Children's Book Award in 1984, Fantastic Stories, The Beast with a Thousand Teeth, The Curse of the Vampire Socks, and Bedtime Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 827.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English humor and satire 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- HV6432 .J66 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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