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Citizen Moore: The Making of an American Iconoclast
 
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Citizen Moore: The Making of an American Iconoclast (Paperback)

by Roger Rapoport (Author)
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  • Paperback: 361 pages
  • Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (21 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0413776492
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413776495
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 972,962 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Michael Moore is the author, film director, political activist, and lambaster of American household names and political establishments. Whether you like him or loathe him, his satirical and persistent style has opened up the world of political journalism to a new audience. His fearless assaults on formidable targets like General Motors, the National Rifle Association and George W. Bush's White House have made Michael Moore a celebrity in his own right - fawned over by movie stars such as Leonardo Di Caprio; publicly accused of making 'crockumentaries', with Moorewatch, a website dedicated to disproving everything he says. Based on interviews with more than 200 insiders - friends, bosses, employees, producers, agents, managers, editors, actors and nuns - "Citizen Moore" traces the untold story of the 30 years of struggles and failures that led to the "overnight" success of this political celebrity.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Moderately interesting but insubstantial, 27 Aug 2007
By Mr. O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews
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Michael Moore's a fascinating figure, and I have equal parts respect for his iconoclasm and disdain for the self-righteous and impractical politics that informs it. I found Bowling for Columbine - for my money Moore's creative peak thus far - entertaining but disingenuous, although ultimately honest enough to admit that the easy, pat, leftie answers didn't really cuit the mustard.

Roger Rappaport's biography doesn't feature any direct, for-purpose interviews with Moore, and is even-handed enough: it tracks, sympathetically, his early progress through the Flint Voice up to his ill-fated and short editorship of Mother Jones, but then unsheathes the knife in the context of Moore's failure to "stay true to his roots" or reciprocate help or acknowledgment from people who have helped him on his way up.

Rappaport's most damning criticism is Moore's hypocrisy: his refusal to confront his own critics, and his own poor sportsmanship (if not quite underhandedness) in cutting them off at the knees. That said, there's nothing like a knock-out blow here, and Rappaport's attempt to affect a New Journalism-style sizzling literary style falls flat - most of Rappaport's efforts at clever wordcraft leads not so much to zip and sparkle as ambiguity and confusion. Once the early history - with which Rappaport seems more familiar - is dispensed with the book moves at a real clip - too much of a clip, really - spending very little time on any of Moore's projects, and certainly including little if any useful political or social analysis of them.

All in all a passable read if you're stuck in an airport terminal, but Michael Moore is an interesting - and politically significant - enough character to warrant a better biography than this.
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