Books by Mark Crispin Miller and Complete Book Reviews
Mark Crispin Miller, Author . Norton $24.95 (304p) 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
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Mark Crispin Miller, Author . Norton $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-393-05917-5
In delivering this blunt jeremiad—Bush is "fascistic," "theocratic," a "crook," etc.—Miller (The Bush Dyslexicon)
argues that the Bush-era press isn't simply biased, it has been lulled into an Orwellian false
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Mark Crispin Miller, Author . Basic $24 (364p) ISBN 978-0-465-04579-2
In this belated exposé—and clarion call for electoral reform—Miller (The Bush Dyslexicon)
accuses George W. Bush and his "theocratic militants" of orchestrating electoral fraud to "hijack" the 2004 presidential...
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Mark Crispin Miller, Author Northwestern University Press $39.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0791-5
In these provocative essays, Miller, associate professor in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University, brilliantly employs the techniques of New Criticism to ``read'' TV commercials, game shows and the news, in order to expose television's...
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Mark Crispin Miller, Author, Mark Crispin Miller, Other Pantheon Books $24.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-394-57491-2
These six essays pose a number of absorbing and insightful points, but also make an exaggerated case for the larger significance of mass culture films like Star Wars. Moreover, by focusing mainly on Hollywood money-makers, the authors, however...
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