The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power) (Counterblasts) - Softcover

Browne, Harry

 
9781781680827: The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power) (Counterblasts)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781680825 ISBN 13: 9781781680827
Verlag: Verso Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2's iconic frontman, Bono-a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist-indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money-Bono is better described as an advocate, one who has become an unwitting symbol of a complacent wealthy Western elite.

The Frontman reveals how Bono moved his investments to Amsterdam to evade Irish taxes; his paternalistic and often bullying advocacy of neoliberal solutions in Africa; his multinational business interests; and his hobnobbing with Paul Wolfowitz and shock-doctrine economist Jeffrey Sachs. Carefully dissecting the rhetoric and actions of Bono the political operator, The Frontman shows him to be an ambassador for imperial exploitation, a man who has turned his attention to a world of savage injustice, inequality and exploitation-and helped make it worse.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry Browne is a Dublin-based activist and journalist who has written for the Irish Times, Sunday Times, Irish Daily Mail, Evening Herald and Sunday Tribune. He is the author of Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a US War Plane - With Ireland's Blessing.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781680825
ISBN 13 
9781781680827
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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