Young Dick Cheney: Great American

by David Slavin and Bruce Kluger

A wickedly funny faux-children's biography recounts Young Dick Cheney's youthful lust for guns, oil, and the girl of his dreams. He was born among the big skies and cow pies of the Great American... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097527242X
• ISBN13: 9780975272428
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Alternet Books
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Young Dick Cheney

Young Dick Cheney is hilarious beginning even at the dedication, until the hilarious ending (and I only WISH Curious George W. Books existed!) It's so absurd, but hysterically so! I'll admit, I thought it would be factual anecdotes with added mockeries, but I was definitely fine with settling for complete illogical mockery. It really makes me wonder what Cheney was like as a kid/teen. Oh, scary scary thoughts. Loved it, an amazingly snarky book for anyone who absolutely loves mocking Cheney and his idiocy.

Funny Look at the Life of a Young Dick

While I haven't the slightest clue as to whether this has any factual basis to it (I'm admitting to being too lazy to search Cheney's early background) I found it to be wonderfully funny and a fantastic example of satire. They use everything that Dick has given them over the years and spun a wonderful tale. If you like Bush/Cheney...stay away! Otherwise...enjoy!

Very Amusing

Young Dick Cheney: Great American This is an amusing book and provides comic relief for all the sad but true problems with the current Vice President.

true, terrifying, and - of course - hilarious

There are plenty of negative things to say about our friend Dick Cheney, but Bruce Kluger and David Slavin do it with a particular comical gift. They manage to come at Dick with their relentless satire in a full frontal assault. If the cover photo doesn't make you laugh - or creep you out sufficiently - rest assured that there is lots more to follow... and it keeps pace right to the end. There are even a few lascivious details about young Dick and Lynne's budding romance, which made me want to put the book down and wash out my eyes with bleach, but the humor kept me going. Highly recommended for its satirical take on such a terrifying figure and the off-beat format to the book.

Story of a True American Hero. So?

This book will help you teach your kids that with enough focus on the Bottom Line, anyone can be President. I mean Vice-President. Richard "call me Dick" Cheney is a man who represents all that is possible in America if you stop worrying about what people think and just concentrate on the tasks at hand. He has done more as President, I mean Vice-President, or should we say President of Vice, than most any man ever. His 450,000 Halliburton (now based in Dubai, how logical, what a truly great American company, let's give them a trillion more to sell us cans of coke for 45 dollars) stock options await him once freed from the noble bonds of public service, so we can stop worrying how he'll survive once out of office. Chump change, really, compared to what he's done for a select group of American Patriots in the last 7 years. Well, 40, really. Sure, the other 98% of the country is far worse off than before Cheney arrived on the scene, but their suffering pales in comparison to how really truly well Dick's friends are doing. Give a million, get a billion! Now that is Capitalism in action. Not to mention the love and (conservative) compassion that Dick has so nobly bestowed upon our planet. Just think of all the thousands of terrorists and about a million Iraqi civilians who would still be contributing to the Greenhouse Effect (it's real at last, Bush's White House confirmed it as he leaves, now we can finally believe all those lying scientists, and let a new President fix it) were it not for the kindness of Richard Cheney. How well he must sleep at night. And boy is our environment doing great these days! Maybe we should think about not using so much oil in a decade or two. From boy to man and beyond, the Cheney Story is one of Noble Sacrifice for the Common Good. Clearly, this man cares about America, and the World. The American World. He has done so much to, I mean for our country. It will never be quite the same. And gosh do we feel secure now! 9/11 showed how just how far a good Plan can go. So far, so good! The Patriot Act indeed. We sure have had our revenge, haven't we? Sometimes Freedom is all about giving up freedoms, and Dick has taught us that lesson well. How proud his family must be when they think of the millions of other families he has helped here and across the globe, families who must pray for his well-being every night as they survey his impact on their communities. And as he would say, "So?"