Here Comes "HERE COMES TROUBLE" -- My New Book Arrives in 6 Days ...from Michael Moore

[Mira]

From my email inbox:
Here Comes "HERE COMES TROUBLE" -- My New Book Arrives in 6 Days ...from Michael Moore

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Friends,

I have some good news to share with you. I have written a big, new book! It is, without a doubt, the most personal work I've ever done. It's called HERE COMES TROUBLE. It contains two dozen short stories, all based on events in my early life, before I became a filmmaker. They tell how, from a young age, the "personal" in my life slowly boiled up and exploded, quite unexpectedly, into the political.

And next Tuesday, September 13th, you will be able to read these stories that, until now, I've only told to my close friends -- friends who, by the way, have long encouraged me to share them with you.

This is my first major book in nearly eight years, and it is, I believe -- if you'll allow me to say this without jinxing it -- the best damn thing I've ever written.

Considering how the act of writing is filled with so much self-loathing, being able to make a statement like that is, trust me, no small feat! (And you don't have to take my word for it -- Publishers Weekly just gave it their top starred review, calling it "outstanding" and a "triumph." I will not argue with these people; they have credentials and they know what they're doing.)

This is a book of 24 short stories -- but they are all nonfiction. From a chance encounter at the age of 11 with Bobby Kennedy to a tense moment in Virginia outside a rest room door marked "Colored"; from the gay kid in the neighborhood who was beaten to a pulp to the night some in my church cheered the news of the death of Martin Luther King; from a ruckus I raised at 17 that helped end a form of racial discrimination nationwide to becoming one of the first 18-year olds in the U.S. elected to public office; from planning my escape to Canada during the Vietnam War to having my newspaper raided by the local police; from confronting Reagan in a German cemetery as he laid a wreath on the graves of Nazi soldiers to surviving a terrorist massacre by showing up 20 minutes late -- this was my life before I even thought of putting the first roll of film inside a camera. Some of these stories are funny, others are devastating, but all of them have something to say, not just about yours truly, but about the country we once thought we were (and about the one we've now, incredibly, become).

Next Tuesday, September 13th, HERE COMES TROUBLE will be in your local library and bookstore. It will be available online, on eReaders and even on iTunes (the audio version that I recorded).

You can order your own copy of the book right now from Amazon (you can also order one to be shipped from your local bookstore or from Barnes & Noble).

If you'd like to read one of the stories from the book for free, you can click here.

My book tour begins next week on the "Today Show" followed by visits to Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher and, of course, "The View."

Then I'm off to visit 20 or so cities in the fall (the full list will be on my website in a few days). One of my missions on the tour will be to help local libraries across the country that are struggling to survive. For my part I will be giving half of all my royalties on every book that is sold at the events on my tour to these local libraries.

I'll tell you more about HERE COMES TROUBLE in the days to come, and if you haven't signed up for my Twitter feed, please do so 'cause I'll be giving away signed copies each day this week (click here to get my tempting Tweets).

Thanks again for all your support through the years. I promise I won't wait another 8 years 'til the next book! I can also promise you're gonna love this one!

Yours,
Michael Moore
[email protected]

[monmouth]

1. I hope it outsells Cheeeeney's by a gazillion....n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. WONDERFUL! I will be sure to read "Here Comes Trouble" Great title! Reagan laid a wreath

on the graves of Nazis? WTF? He did that while he was the President?

[Mira]

4. It happened in Bitburg Germany - here is the story

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id342.htm

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Thank you for the link.

:hi:

[Maccagirl]

21. Yes, it also inspired the Ramones "Bonzo Goes to Blitzberg".

[applegrove]

3. May it inspire generations of activists.

[masmdu]

5. I wonder if he'll tell the one about how his support for Nader and "Gore=Bush" had a major role

in creating the world we live in now...

[sabrina 1]

7. I wonder how many people have done as much as MM did

to expose the lies we were being told about the War in Iraq as MM did. Or were threatened with death for daring to do so. OR how many have educated people, when the media fails to do so, about the Healthcare system in this country, in his Doc. 'Sicko' blowing away the rightwing lies about Europe's and Canada's system, and even Cuba's? And I wonder would any of us have survived the vicious assaults on him for making that movie, the millions spent to try to keep it from being shown.

Then there was 'Capitalism A Love Story', as always, MM was a bit ahead of everyone else with all these movies, all of which should be seen today and tomorrow by anyone who cares about this country.

MM had no influence over the Bush cartel taking over this country. That was all done by Rightwing criminals with the final coup by the USSC felonious five. An act of treason by them is what did that to this country. Blaming anyone but them, is giving them cover which should never be allowed to happen.

MM is a real American patriot, a man who actually does love his country and has done more than the millions of online bloggers put together, to expose the worst crimes committed against this country by Corporate America.

[masmdu]

9. If he had not been such a vocal supporter for Nader and critic of Gore we would NOT HAVE HAD BUSH!

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. That just isn't true. Far from it actually. n/t

[sabrina 1]

16. You've got to be kidding!

Seriously, I was going to respond with facts etc. but I wouldn't know where to begin.

Except to say that at that time, MM was hardly known in this country, I did not know him eg, except to those who were into the Documentary Film world. MM had zero influence on the stolen election of 2000. Gore WON that election. And then it was stolen. It always puzzles me to see people letting the rightwing traitors who committed that egregious crime off the hook. As if they want to protect them or something, by presenting these foolish scenarios.

The USSC stole an election that was WON by Gore. Those are the facts, and I don't know why you would have any interest in trying to change them.

[masmdu]

18. Wrong

Wrong. You may not have known about him but many others did.
I never said he had an influence on the stolen election. And I agree completely that AFTER Nader (with MM's support) got enough votes in Florida to make the race so close that Gore and Bush had to be decided by the Supreme court that, yes at that point rightwing traitors committed and egregious crime...but they wouldn't have had the chance to do so if not for MM's support for Nader in Florida.

[sabrina 1]

20. You're still ignoring a basic fact! Gore WON the 2000 election.

You're also ignoring, well, so many other facts, as I said, it's hard to know where to begin. But MM did not influence all those Democrats who voted for Bush, eg. They exercised their legal right to choose a candidate, stupidly no doubt, but legally. Every action taken by MM, Nader, the Dem voters who voted for Bush even, all of those actions were DEMOCRATIC and LEGAL and as such deserve no mention regarding the criminal theft of a US election. To attempt to try to conflate 'legal and democratic actions' with treasonous, illegal, unconstitutional, treasonous actions, is mind-bogglingly ridiculous.

Let me ask you this? If the Crime of Treason had not been committed by the USSC who would have won the election? Despite the legal and constitutional acts of voters you keep trying to blame for what happened?

Think about it for a minute and maybe you'll finally understand. The legal actions of voters and legal candidates in an election bear zero blame, credit maybe if they win, which in this case they did not since Gore WON, when a Cabal of Criminals take over the process and then, even with all those efforts, you remember Harris' illegal voter suppression list among other things, even with all that, they STILL could not defeat Gore. So they turned to their comrades on the USSC to finish the job for him. As I said, MM had zero to do with it, Nader had zero to do with it, nor did the Bush-voting Dems, since GORE WON despite their not voting for him.

The Rightwing Criminal Cabal along with the five criminals on the SC stole that election. To even try to conflate legal voters with those criminals and attempt to involve them in the crime, is ludicrous to say the least.

[masmdu]

22. You are misrepresenting what I said.

I never claimed that Gore didn't win.

I never said that MM had any influence on those who voted for anybody other than Nader.

Nor did I claim anything about one's legal right to vote for the canidate they want.

I am not attempting as you say "to try to conflate 'legal and democratic actions' with treasonous, illegal, unconstitutional, treasonous actions," Those crimes came ***AFTER*** Nader with MM's support had won a percentage of the vote that, had that not occured, would have obviated the need for the S.C. to decide the election.

You're claim that MM or Nader had ZERO to do with the theft of the election misses the point. I'm not claiming anything other than Nader's success with MM's support provided the apriori condition that allowed for the theft.

MM claim of Gore being equal to Bush helped create support for Nader. MM has some reponsibility for the installation of Bush as president.

[sabrina 1]

24. You are assuming that those who voted for Nader would have

voted for Gore had Nader not been in the race. What is that based on? MM doesn't have, even now that he's way better known than he was then, the ability to change someone's mind. You are attributing powers to people like him that he simply doesn't have. Those people voted the way they wanted to and most of them would simply have stayed home if they could not find someone else to vote for. They did nto WANT to vote for either Bush or Gore. This notion that celebrities have any influence over how people vote has been proven over and over again to be false.

The truth is Gore got all the votes he was going to get, regardless of who else was running. Those who voted for someone else, did so because they did not agree with his policies. It is, as I said already, ludicrous to attribute any role in the theft of the 2000 election to MM or Nader. I don't know who started that rumor, but I suspect it was rightwingers, probably Karl Rove, trying to distract from the theft of that election which will and should go down in infamy.

Had there been no treason, not curruption by the Bush cabal and Fox and the SC and Katherine Harris and all the other felons who helped steal that election, Gore would have won.

What you are suggesting is that we discourage the democratic process of people voting for the candidate who best represents them, because we must accept the fact that our elections WILL BE STOLEN! Shifting the blame to perfectly honest people for crimes they have nothing to do with. I am so sick of this, frankly.

[masmdu]

27. It is not an assumption. I know several people who voted for Nader who would have voted for Gore.

And I can tell you that without a doubt MM's support for Nader did indeed have an influence on those people.

Again, I am not attributing any role in the theft of the election to MM.
I am, however, attributing a role in the broadening of the support for Nader to MM by way of his Gore = Bush comment.

In that regard MM bares some responibility for creating the stiuation that allowed for the theft. There is a difference between what you are claiming I am saying and what I am actualy saying.

Futher, I am not suggesting that MM did it with mal intent. But there are consequences to actions whether intended or not. Could MM have known how bad Bush would be? No. However, his Gore = Bush contention was obviously not the case and by supporting Nader and drawing away Gore voters MM helped to create the situation that resulted in the theft of the election.

[sabrina 1]

29. That number is so minimal it would not have had any effect

on the election. I know people who would not have voted for Gore regardless.

An election is an election. No one back then knew that there were people so evil they would steal an election. They exercised their rights to vote for the person they most trusted to run the country. That is democracy, that's how it works. If a candidate wants people's votes, s/he has to earn them. The voters are NOT responsible for the failure of a candidate to earn their votes.

You are claiming that if only MM had remained quiet, Gore would have won. That is not so. They had every intention of stealing that election and had plenty more tricks up their sleeves. As was the case throughout the entire procedure.

MM bears no responsibility for what happened, nor does Nader, nor the Bush Democrats nor anyone who participated in the democratic process. The only people to blame for what happened are the criminals who participated in activities to help steal it, and the USSC.

To claim otherwise is like saying that if a Bank is robbed, and the theives succeed in getting a huge haul, we should be angry at those who made deposits right before the robbery because they contributed to the thieves getting much more than they would have otherwise.

This argument is a failure. I can't believe it is still circulating.

How many posts in this exchange, and the actual criminals and all the criminal actions that took place throughout the campaign, right up to the final crime, have hardly been mentioned? Mission accomplished.

I have always suspected this to be Rovian tactic. And it works. All we did was talk about irrelevancies, while the actual crime received hardly a mention. The Rightwing sure knows how to manipulate people, I'll give them that.

[masmdu]

31. Again you are missing the point or being obtuse on purpose.

In actuallity had a minimal number of Nader votes gone for Gore the conditions under which the theft was even possible would not have existed. Therefore no theft, therefore no Bush.

Those in support of Nader were well aware that there was NO chance of him winning the election. The false equivalency of Gore=Bush gave them cover to make such a vote in part thanks to MM.

There was no realistic potential for a positive outcome, and at least an arguable potential for a highly negative one. Without a mechanism like IRV advocating for Nader with the false equivalency of Gore=Bush was irresponsible and the outcome predictable.

Why do you think MM given the chance to support Nader in 2004 chose to support Kerry? He saw the error of his ways. Hell, even LaDuke went with Kerry. Both in hopes of preventing a recurrance of what happened in 2000.

Here is an excerpt I agree with from a letter to Nader prior to the 2000 election:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/102700-03.htm

You have also broken your word to your followers who signed the petitions that got you on the ballot in many states. You pledged you would not campaign as a spoiler and would avoid the swing states. Your recent campaign rhetoric and campaign schedule make it clear that you have broken this pledge. Your response: you are a political candidate, and a political candidate wants to take every vote he can. Very well -- you admit you are a candidate -- admit that you are, like your opponents, a flawed one.

Irresponsible as I find your strategy, I accept that you genuinely believe in it. Please accept that I, and the overwhelming majority of the environmental movement in this country, genuinely believe that your strategy is flawed, dangerous and reckless. Until you can answer how you will protect the people and places who will be put in harm's way, or destroyed, by a Bush presidency, you have no right to slander those who disagree with you as "servile."

You have called upon us to vote our hopes, not our fears. I find it easy to do so. My hope is that by electing the best environmental President in American history, Al Gore, we can move forward. My fear is that you, blinded by your anger at flaws of the Clinton-Gore Administration, may be instrumental in electing the worst.

Sincerely yours,

Carl Pope
Executive Director
The Sierra Club

[Bandit]

8. Sometimes you people make my head spin

Maybe if Gore had won his own home state?????????????? :shrug: What have you done to promote Liberal causes anyway???

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Michael Moore single-handedly caused Gore to lose? I've always blamed Gore for that

for NOT using Bill Clinton to campaign for him. Clinton left office with a 65% approval rating. He could have won the election for Gore, but Lieberman didn't want his help. Gore lost his own state, for crying out loud. Also, a full State recount in FL. would have been nice. Many people supported Nader. Not just Michael Moore. I LOVE Al Gore, but Michael Moore is not the reason he lost the election.

[masmdu]

19. Never claimed that...However, if Nader had not done as well as he did,

and he did as well as he did in part because his cause was promoted by MM...we would not have had Bush, and probably not 9-11...Afganistan, Iraq, Derivatives Blow-up...

[SalviaBlue]

36. Um, Hello, Gore didn't "lose"

Its common knowledge the supreme court stole it.

[Javaman]

6. Damn it, I unrec'd by accident. Anyone help me out my rec'ing? thanks nt

[tkmorris]

10. Consider it done mate.

Gonna get my wife to rec it too, so you get a twofer.

:toast:

[Javaman]

28. Cheers! :) nt

[kdmorris]

32. Done :)

:toast:

[PotatoChip]

11. Looking forward to this big-time!

Thanks for the heads-up Mira!

K&R

[SpiralHawk]

15. Reagan (R) laying a wreath to honor dead Nazis

Bush Family (R) skull & boners acting as bankers & funders for Hitler and the Nazis.

This is what Republicons call American 'Patriotism'?

How screwed over is that?

'Republicon Family Values' are totally twisted moral dreck.

[alfredo]

17. Thanks! I just pre ordered the Kindle edition.

[Ignis]

23. K&R for Michael Moore.

His previous books have been great--and a very useful tool for helping those who aren't as politically astute to understand how the Republicans have changed the rules of the game.

[Mira]

25. I just ordered it on Amazon. A guaranteed pre-order price of 17 vs. 26

I have all of his books in hard copy, no reason to change that. He is steadfast, supports us Liberals, and has the courage and the brains I wish I also had.

[chillspike]

26. This is gonna be great!

Psyched!!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Read the excerpt. Ordered the book.

Can't wait to read the rest. :woohoo:

[raccoon]

34. Link to excerpt? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. It was in the email

I'll look to see if I still have it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Here ya go

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/HereComesTroubleExcerptTetMichaelMoore.htm

[xchrom]

33. Cool. Love MM. Nt