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Informationen zum Autor John Moe is a regular contributor to the award-winning humor Web site McSweeneys.net and his stories, commentaries, and short humor pieces have appeared on the NPR programs All Things Considered , Morning Edition , Day to Day , and Only a Game . He lives with his wife and children in Seattle. Klappentext It has been said that everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue--permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? A lifelong liberal, John Moe was determined to find out. So he reset his radio dials from NPR to Rush Limbaugh, joined some of today's most influential conservative thinkers for a series of "conversion sessions," made pilgrimages to the Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon museums, and spent the Fourth of July in the most Bush-friendly county in the country, in an attempt to discover if there was actually a conservative trapped inside him yearning to be set free.Conservatize Me is a fresh, humorous, and highly entertaining look at our country's political landscape, one that will strike a powerful chord with millions of disgruntled Americans while stimulating the mind and tickling the funny bone. Zusammenfassung It has been said that everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue—permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? A lifelong liberal! John Moe was determined to find out. So he reset his radio dials from NPR to Rush Limbaugh! joined some of today's most influential conservative thinkers for a series of "conversion sessions!" made pilgrimages to the Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon museums! and spent the Fourth of July in the most Bush-friendly county in the country! in an attempt to discover if there was actually a conservative trapped inside him yearning to be set free. Conservatize Me is a fresh! humorous! and highly entertaining look at our country's political landscape! one that will strike a powerful chord with millions of disgruntled Americans while stimulating the mind and tickling the funny bone. ...
