THE BUSH DYSLEXICON: Observations on a National Disorder
Mark Crispin Miller, . . Norton, $24.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-393-04183-5
Miller, a New York University professor of media studies, has fashioned a devastating compendium of President George W. Bush's grammatical gaffes, syntactical shipwrecks, mind-boggling malapropisms and simply dumb comments. Page after page (after page) of quotations, suggests Miller, reveal that Bush is a man who, while not stupid, is prodigiously illiterate and woefully uneducated. Further, and compounding the problem, Bush could not care less about these shortcomings. How then, Miller asks, and this is his larger concern, did someone—in Miller's opinion—so obviously unqualified to be president convince so many voters that he was? Miller's answer is, in a word,
Reviewed on: 05/07/2001
Genre: Nonfiction