Stupid White Men

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (ISBN 0-06-039245-2) is a book by Michael Moore published in 2001. As of April 2003, it had spent 50 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list (eight weeks at #1) for hardcover nonfiction and is in its 43rd printing. It is generally known by its short title, Stupid White Men.

The book is highly critical of recent U.S. government policies in general, and the policies of the Bush administration in particular. It has been criticized for several factual inaccuracies.

Moore completed Stupid White Men shortly before the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. His publisher, HarperCollins[?], initially refused to release the book, fearing bad publicity in the wake of this event (despite an advance printing of over 100,000 copies).

The book is enormously popular, having been the largest-selling nonfiction book for the year 2002 at such major outlets as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, and occupying the #1 spot in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere.

External link

• Free online bonus chapter (http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/stupidwhitemen/onlinechapters/part01.php)