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You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You | Molly Ivins
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Oh Molly Ivins, we need you now more than ever. Even though she has departed, her words shall forever sing and sting. #seasonsreadings2016

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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America." This is the only collection of Ivins I have read thus far, but I need to check out her other books as her political observations are spot on. #augustbookchallenge

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This collection's subtitle is Politics In The Clinton Years and spans approximately 1993-1997. Many of the pieces hold true in America two decades later; change some names - Obama for Clinton, Trump for Limbaugh - and her observations are eerily similar.

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This book is dated (1998) yet accurately describes America nearly two decades later.

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