A Bush & Botox World

Saul Landau

Jan 8 2008

Bush & Botox World provides insight into the culture under which the Bush White House operates. It uses Botox as a metaphor for both the rapid technological change of the globalized world and its superficiality. Landau syncopates visits to modern Vietnam with analysis of the bizarre world of anti-Castro terrorists. He brings readers into the homes of corporate executives and into the street lives of African American kids on east Oakland's streets.

Between the prose pieces, Landau inserts pithy poems on aging, computers and a concert in Istanbul. He takes readers back to the horrors of the 1976 assassination of his friends and colleagues, Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt on Washington, DC's Embassy Row and into the blood-filled streets of Falluja. The allegorical essays on Hearst's Castle and the Salton Sea stand as both insights into the contemporary world and warnings for the next generation.

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Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker. He has won many awards, including the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, the First Amendment Award, and an Emmy. He is a fellow of Institute for Policy Studies and a senior fellow of the Transnational Institute

ISBN:

1904859615

Saul Landau

Film-maker, journalist and author

TNI Senior Fellow and former Director of TNI (1976), Landau is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. Landau writes weekly on US politics and foreign policy and has produced more than forty films on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights.

Landau has written fourteen books - his most recent book is A Bush and Botox World (Counterpunch, 2007). He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.

He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. Gore Vidal says, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from"

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