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Michael Moore : a Biography
MICHAEL MOORE
A BIOGRAPHY BY
EMILY SCHULTZ
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MICHAEL MOORE
A BIOGRAPHY BY
EMILY SCHULTZ
Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore
Michael Moore. Left and right can both
agree that this son of GM workers
has single-handedly revitalized liberal
politics, and turned his unique style of
political filmmaking into an expectation-
defying brand. What is it about this
former Eagle Scout that gets people
from around the world and from all
political persuasions so worked up?
In his ball-cap and windbreaker —
always aware of the power of the
media — Moore has spent a lifetime
refining his image as the everyday
rebel. He is a man who, at age 18, ran
for the local school board so he could
fire his principal, and who spent three
years suing a magazine where he
worked for two issues.
Long before he shocked the nation on
the Academy Awards stage, he was
picking fights with everyone from big
continues on back flap
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MICHAEL MOORE
A BIOGRAPHY BY
EMILY SCHULTZ
ECW Press
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Copyright © Emily Schultz, 2005
Published by ecw Press
2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada m4e 1e2
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic,
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written permission of the copyright owners and ecw Press.
library and archives canada cataloguing in publication
Schultz, Emily
Michael Moore : a biography / Emily Schultz.
isbn 1-55022-699-1
1. Moore, Michael, 1954 Apr. 23 — Quotations. 2. Moore, Michael,
1954 Apr. 23- 3. Motion picture producers and directors — United
States — Biography. i. Title.
pn1998.3.m65b76 3005 791.4302'33'092 c2005-904374-1
Editor: Kevin Connolly
Cover and Text Design: Tania Craan
Production: Mary Bowness
Cover Photo: Nicolas Guerin/Azimuts/Corbis
Printing: Friesens
This book is set in Minion and Meta Plus
With the publication of Michael Moore ecw Press acknowledges the generous financial
support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry
Development Program (bpidp), the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts
Council, for our publishing activites.
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Canada: Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Ave., Georgetown, on l7g 5s4
United States: Independent Publishers Group, 814 North Franklin Street,
Chicago, il, U.S.A. 60610
printed and bound in canada
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For Uncle Bob ( 1940 2005 )
whom I looked forward to
arguing with over this book
 
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