Here Comes Trouble
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  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846146015
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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Here Comes Trouble

Stories From My Life

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21 Nov 2012
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14 Sep 2011
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Moore's first major book in eight years: his revealing, hilarious, take-no-prisoners 'anti-memoir'

Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.

Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stuck on a Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy, and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Changing planes in Vienna, he escapes death at the hands of the terrorist Abu Nidal (others weren't so lucky). He founded his first underground newspaper in fourth grade. He refused to be on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite at 16 ("There's not enough Clearasil in the world for that to happen"). And he became the youngest elected official in the country at age 18 by enlisting an "army of local stoners" who had no idea what they were doing as his campaign staff.

Before Michael Moore became the Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round rabble rouser and thorn-in-the-side of corporate and right-wing America, there was the guy who had an uncanny knack of just showing up where history was being made. This book is a wild, revealing, take-no-prisoners ride through his early life. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, this is a book Michael Moore has been writing -- and living -- for a very long time.
  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846146015
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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About the author

Michael Moore

Michael Moore's books include Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country? His films include Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling For Columbine, The Big One, Canadian Bacon, and Roger & Me. His TV series include TV Nation and The Awful Truth. He's won an Oscar, an Emmy, and hopes to win a Grammy with the audio recording of this book. Broadway, you're next! He became the first American to win the British Book of the Year award and is revered throughout Slovenia for rea­sons that are still unclear to him. His blood pres­sure is a steady 120 over 60 and his cholesterol count is 152. He resides in northern Michigan.

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Praise for Here Comes Trouble

Hilarious

Guardian

A comic genius

Independent

Caustic, breakneck, tell-it-like-it-is ... He's a genuine populist; a twenty-first century pamphleteer

Observer

Moore has mastered the rare trick of being passionate and funny at the same time

New Statesman

Moore is a worldwide force ... a cultural icon

The Times

Outstanding ... with the book's emotional highs and lows, and self-deprecating, empathetic style, Moore triumphs. ... enlightening, engaging, and occasionally enraging

Publisher's Weekly

Here Comes Trouble is by far Mr. Moore's best book...[his] coming of age as a working-class malcontent is...something to behold. It's the story of a big lunk who learns to yoke his big mouth to a sense of purpose. It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine.

Dwight Garner, New York Times