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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
by Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz writes a daily satirical column for the New Yorker which is usually pretty funny. Here he devotes 250 pages or so to tracing the rise of ignorance in American politics. Eminently readable, but in some ways simply a compendium of moronic moments in politics. He does provide a guiding outline - how during Reagan and Quayle's time politicians tried to hide their ignorance do as not to face ridicule. George W. Bush made being proud of one's ignorance acceptable, and then the moron known as the former guy celebrated his ignorance. A "fun" read, but there's nothing really new here.