Common Nonsense : : Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
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Portrait of a young deejay -- Last stop on the top 40 train -- The luckiest loudmouth in Tampa -- It's always about Glenn -- This...is CNN? -- A rodeo clown goes large -- Beck unbound -- False victory -- A deep-seated hatred for...the White culture? -- Acorn -- Brother Beck presents : Mormon masterpiece theater -- The ghost of Cleon Skousen -- The 9.12 project -- Epilogue.
"Traces Beck's personal history from his troubled childhood through his years as a 'morning zoo' DJ to his sudden and meteoric rise to the conservative media heap. [The author] pays special attention to Beck's transformation from alcoholic-snorting, failed disc jockey without a political thought in his head to wealthy, bile-spewing, right-wing demagogue." -- Dust jacket.
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PUBLISHED
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: v, 282 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0470557397
9780470557396
SUBJECTS
Beck, Glenn -- Political and social views.
Beck, Glenn -- Influence.
Conservatism.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Political aspects.
Political culture.
Popular culture.
Radio personalities -- Biography.
Television personalities -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Mormons -- Biography.