Red V. Blue; The Red Stater's Guide to the Great State Debate

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Good. Steve Chorney (Cover Illustration). The format is approximately 5 inches by 7 inches. xii, 108 pages. Small illustrations. Glossary. Decorative cover. The cover has some wear and soiling. Deborah Baer has worked as an entertainment editor at Ladies Home Journal, Parents, CosmoGirl!, and Lifetime magazines, where she interviewed more than 100 celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Pierce Brosnan, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, and Shania Twain. Now freelancing, Dibs has written for Seventeen, US Weekly, Star, Hamptons, More, Marie Claire, Galmour, Self and the New York Daily News. After earning a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. E.J. Boeke began working in promotions/marketing at Conde nast. She has spent most of her eight-year career there at Conde Nast Traveler, Details, GQ and now Gourmet, with a few stints as a copywriter for The New York Times in between. Steven Chorney illustrated the cover (born 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American artist, graphic designer and illustrator with a primary focus in the motion picture industry. Over the 1983-86 period, Chorney created dramatic illustrations for over 50 TV Guide advertisements for CBS and NBC television programs, including, Dynasty, Miami Vice, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Private Eye, T.J. Hooker, and Cagney and Lacey. In 1987 his work on the popular television series Designing Women won First Place in The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards for Television. The artist's drawing skills and dramatic technique have been applied to over 120 motion picture campaigns. RARE Chorney cover! Can't we all just get along? The 2004 election is over and people are pissed. The re-election of W for a second term has divided the country in ways we haven't seen since the OJ verdict, since Britney v. Christina, since paper v. plastic. The cultural divide between the liberal elite and the compassionate conservative has pitted family member against family member, co-worker against co-worker, and on a much larger scale, the Blue Stater v. Red Stater. We're supposed to be the "United" States, but right now, we're about as united as Shaq and Kobe in the NBA finals. RED v. BLUE is an irreverent guide to the history, demographics, ideals, and philosophies of "the enemy." This hilarious humor book is an equal opportunity offender, and the Red side of the great divide will embrace how its handbook showcases the hypocrisies and vulnerabilities of the opponents. The book includes: The History of Stater Hating, including origins of Red v. Blue; A rundown of divisive issues defining each side's position on Coke v. Pepsi, creamy v. chunky, Roe v. Wade, paper or plastic, Vietnam, Leno v. Letterman, Big Mac v. Whopper, Ruben v. Clay, et al.; The 10 Commandments (according to the Red side); State of the Red nation—laced with fun factoids—with an in-depth look inside the mind of Red Staters regarding morals, foreign policy, drinking, smoking, and drugs, religion, entertainment, and consumer characteristics.; Quizzes to determine what shade of red you are.; A turncoat's survival guide (ways to survive in you're living in a state of the other color). And much much more hilarious commentary on the great divide.