You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You by Molly Ivins

You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You by Molly Ivins

In her long-awaited new collection, the Colt Peacekeeper of American political
humor draws a bead on targets that range from the Libido-in-Chief to Newt
Gingrich, campaign funny-money to the legislative lunacy of her native Texas--and
hits a bull's-eye every time.

Whether she's writing about Bill Clinton ("The Rodney Dangerfield of
presidents"), Bob Dole ("Dole contributed perhaps the funniest line of the year
with his immortal observation that tobacco is not addictive but that too much
milk might be bad for us.The check from the dairy lobby must have been late
that week"), or cultural trends ("I saw a restaurant in Seattle that specialized
in latte and barbecue.Barbecue and latte.I came home immediately"), Molly
takes on the issues of the day with her trademark good sense and inimitable wit.

MOLLY IVINS began her career in journalism as a member of the Houston Chronicle's complaint department. She became co-editor of The Texas Observer in 1970, which allowed her to cover the Texas legislature and have frequent spasms of uncontrollable laughter. Ivins began his career as a political correspondent for The New York Times in 1976. The next year, she was promoted to Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, primarily due to the fact that there was no one else in the bureau at the time. She returned to Texas in 1982, possibly indicating a masochistic streak, and has had much to write about since then.

Her freelance writing has appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper's, and other journals, and her column is syndicated in over 300 newspapers. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? was her debut novel. Her George W. Bush books, co-authored with Lou Dubose, are well-known. She is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and her two greatest achievements are that the Minneapolis police department named its mascot pig after her and that she was previously barred from Texas A&M University's campus.

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ISBN 13	9780679754879
ISBN 10	0679754873
Title	You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
Author	Molly Ivins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-02-02
Number of pages	288
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