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| Young Dick Cheney: Great American | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bruce Kluger, David Slavin
Creator: Tim Foley
Publisher: AlterNet Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 111228
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 150
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 097527242X
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780975272428
ASIN: 097527242X
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description
A wickedly funny faux-children's biography recounts Young Dick Cheney’s youthful lust for guns, oil, and the girl of his dreams.
He was born among the big skies and cow pies of the Great American West. And yet from these humble beginnings, he would grow to become the most famous, most powerful Dick ever to inhabit the Vice Presidency. In this often shocking, frequently touching, clearly unauthorized biography, faux journalists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin (National Public Radio) reveal the inspiring and sometimes even true story of Richard B. Cheney—frontiersman, freedom fighter, fatty. Meticulously reported (including a footnote!) and lushly illustrated by renegade artist Tim Foley, this unprecedented, spell-checked triumph of painstaking conjecture brings to life the Dick nobody knows: a secretive yet sensitive boy from Wyoming with a shoot-from-the-hip, shoot-in-the-face style all his own. From his mischievous boyhood friendships, to his high-octane high school romance with the one girl who knew what made Dick tick, Young Dick Cheney: Great American is destined to be cherished by patriots and Democrats alike—a book that will captivate readers everywhere for months to come.
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 Story of a True American Hero. So? April 22, 2008
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book will help you teach your kids that with enough focus on the Bottom Line, anyone can be President. I mean Vice-President.
Richard "call me Dick" Cheney is a man who represents all that is possible in America if you stop worrying about what people think and just concentrate on the tasks at hand. He has done more as President, I mean Vice-President, or should we say President of Vice, than most any man ever. His 450,000 Halliburton (now based in Dubai, how logical, what a truly great American company, let's give them a trillion more to sell us cans of coke for 45 dollars) stock options await him once freed from the noble bonds of public service, so we can stop worrying how he'll survive once out of office. Chump change, really, compared to what he's done for a select group of American Patriots in the last 7 years. Well, 40, really.
Sure, the other 98% of the country is far worse off than before Cheney arrived on the scene, but their suffering pales in comparison to how really truly well Dick's friends are doing. Give a million, get a billion! Now that is Capitalism in action.
Not to mention the love and (conservative) compassion that Dick has so nobly bestowed upon our planet. Just think of all the thousands of terrorists and about a million Iraqi civilians who would still be contributing to the Greenhouse Effect (it's real now, White House confirmed it) were it not for the kindness of Richard Cheney.
How well he must sleep at night.
And boy is our environment doing great these days! Maybe we should think about not using so much oil in a decade or two.
From boy to man and beyond, the Cheney Story is one of Noble Sacrifice for the Common Good.
Clearly, this man cares about America, and the World. The American World.
He has done so much to, I mean for our country. It will never be quite the same. And gosh do we feel secure now! 9/11 showed how just how far a good Plan can go. So far, so good! The Patriot Act indeed. We sure have had our revenge, haven't we? Sometimes Freedom is all about giving up freedoms, and Dick has taught us that lesson well.
How proud his family must be when they think of the millions of other families he has helped here and across the globe, families who must pray for his well-being every night as they survey his impact on their communities.
And as he would say, "So?"
true, terrifying, and - of course - hilarious May 2, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
There are plenty of negative things to say about our friend Dick Cheney, but Bruce Kluger and David Slavin do it with a particular comical gift. They manage to come at Dick with their relentless satire in a full frontal assault. If the cover photo doesn't make you laugh - or creep you out sufficiently - rest assured that there is lots more to follow... and it keeps pace right to the end. There are even a few lascivious details about young Dick and Lynne's budding romance, which made me want to put the book down and wash out my eyes with bleach, but the humor kept me going.
Highly recommended for its satirical take on such a terrifying figure and the off-beat format to the book.
 Review of a book of a man who will not have many good things to say about him in history. July 26, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is wildly over the top and wonderful. I laughed all the way through it. You have to have been a political junkie for the last 7 years to get all the humor.
Very Amusing August 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Young Dick Cheney: Great American
This is an amusing book and provides comic relief for all the sad but true problems with the current Vice President.
Funny Look at the Life of a Young Dick August 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While I haven't the slightest clue as to whether this has any factual basis to it (I'm admitting to being too lazy to search Cheney's early background) I found it to be wonderfully funny and a fantastic example of satire. They use everything that Dick has given them over the years and spun a wonderful tale. If you like Bush/Cheney...stay away! Otherwise...enjoy!
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