Campaign Zen Election history in campaign doggerel eBook Peter Prasad Ol' Colonial Whipersnaper
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A humorous history of US election campaigns with insights from the first Greek vote and First Americans. Watch the melting pot melt from Lexington Square to today's Foggy Bottom circa Obama vs. Romney '12. Chaw and gawp and howl! Huzzah! Updated each election cycle. A circle can take no sides.
Campaign Zen Election history in campaign doggerel eBook Peter Prasad Ol' Colonial Whipersnaper
This book was referred by a friend. I loved it. it's a fast read and very funny. I'm giving Campaign Zen as a gift to my die-hard political friends. Author Peter Prasad reviews U.S. political history with a view to the 2012 election, with insights about election history back to the Greeks. In tidbits and snippets, he covers the march of democracy. Some sections are written in a kind of poetry which the author refers to as doggerel. We made a party game out of the book by reading passages out loud in different voices. It was a great party. This book is definitely worthwhile. Huzzah to you, Peter Prasad! You can search by book title and author's name on You Tube and find Prasad reading from the book as well. On election night, we're going to have a costume party and do the readings again. Highly recommended. Prasad makes it fun to be a citizen again. [...]Product details
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Campaign Zen Election history in campaign doggerel eBook Peter Prasad Ol' Colonial Whipersnaper Reviews
I found this book funny and full of facts, such as "at the first elections in Athens, in 500 BC, only 21 balls were cast, white for Yes and black for No." The humor the author, Prasad, injects throughout doesn't take away from the seriousness of the subject, the right to vote and the evolution of elections since 500 BC to the present (President Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, and the transformation of what once used to be simply the right to direct our destinies through our leaders to an occasion where a select few with the deepest pockets scramble to determine the course of our future). There are hidden gems in this book that are sombre, such as "we died so you could vote," that are sobering and worth reflecting on. This is a must-read during this election season, and also as a fact-ful book. Don't let the colonial tavern doggerel fool you!
Campaign Zen 500bc-2012 by Peter Prasad
My Review
My mind is clear and now I'm enlightened.
Sir, you say and I quote, "Over East, Zen calls it, wa, the motion of your Ocean. Had any calm-abiding insights today?"
Why, yes, I absolutely loved Campaign Zen.
I laughed until I cried. History should be so much fun.
This book is filled with wonderful images and is begged to be read out loud.
Mr. Prasad, your style is your own, richly unique, and truly exceptional.
And since my dharma is influenced by my karma, I will definitely read Campaign Zen again. And again.
For what goes around...
From Campaign Zen by Peter Prasad
"Give Mother Earth a new green girdle around her equator, before she tropical belts us again. Africa and South America say thank you. Florida too, or silver hair aghast as Seminole swamps return to flood. Ask Arnold to redo the Rubio. Photosynthesis is no sin." -Peter Prasad
"This is not a religion, but a spirit, an inner-attitude. You need no church--you're already in one. Cathedral Earth. Cathedral piece-of-my-heart. You even get to pick the music. Upbeat
Or down-trodden. Dirge or delight? What is your Pleasure, Voter, Supreme Being?" -Peter Prasad
Comes around... It has been my profound pleasure, Mr. Prasad, to read such an amazing work of art.
There are so many great puns, satires and great points that are made by the author of this book! This is a media-lover's delight with many current topics revealed by Peter Prasad's truly unique and quirky sense of humor.
Clever poetry, funny essays, the spirit of freedom (of speech) and democracy, the ways of both colonial and new America presented in a hilarious and timely fashion. Once the media gets their hands on this book, they will have a lot of fun with it. It's a rappers delight and a historian's fright. I can honestly say that this is unlike any other book I've ever read.
If you're into politics and the goings-on of government, you'll truly get a kick out of American Campaign Zen!
Campaign Zen is both a book and a work of art. And when I say art, I am not only referring to the interesting images in the book, but even more so, I am referring to the words, the sentences the writing. Some of the words I had to look up "doggerel" for example. The Free Dictionary says "... irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature". Spot on, I thought. That really covers many aspects of this amazing book.
I contacted the author of the book and asked him If you had not written Campaign Zen, what would you write about it? This is his reply "Prasad has penned a creative book with rapid-fire references to American political history. He succeeds at being funny with a unique style served as spoken-word, which he calls tavern doggerel. Prasad captures a multitude of voices that express the American experience - Colonials, Brits, First Americans, early immigrants - while the final section focused on the Obama-Romney campaign. If it's possible to take a holistic approach to a divisive political process, Prasad tweaks both sides and leaves us laughing. He even claims this is a fun book to read out loud in put-on accents as parties."
Well, I couldn't help but smile and thought here is my review. I agree with every word he says and couldn't have spelled it out better myself. Prasad also told me that the language is all original by him, except for the cited quotations. The book is based on an historic series of key events in US presidential and election history. The facts are accurate; the perspectives are fictional but based in fact.
So here you have it. An utterly amazing book, which I can't recommend highly enough. If allowed me, I would give it an extra sixth star for creativity. Well, I can't, so five stars it is! -- Maybe I can ...
This book was referred by a friend. I loved it. it's a fast read and very funny. I'm giving Campaign Zen as a gift to my die-hard political friends. Author Peter Prasad reviews U.S. political history with a view to the 2012 election, with insights about election history back to the Greeks. In tidbits and snippets, he covers the march of democracy. Some sections are written in a kind of poetry which the author refers to as doggerel. We made a party game out of the book by reading passages out loud in different voices. It was a great party. This book is definitely worthwhile. Huzzah to you, Peter Prasad! You can search by book title and author's name on You Tube and find Prasad reading from the book as well. On election night, we're going to have a costume party and do the readings again. Highly recommended. Prasad makes it fun to be a citizen again. [...]
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