Book description
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.
In addition to his work as a bestselling author, Michael Moore is the
award-winning director of
Bowling for Columbine
,
Fahrenheit 9/11
,
Sicko
and
Capitalism: A Love Story
. He lives in Michigan.
