Global War on Morris (Israel) - Book Reviews

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[I]t’s an unexpected delight to find The Global War on Morris, a political satire by Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), so spirited and funny.... [A]t the center of a network of sycophants, [Vice President] Cheney stirs the cauldron of our nation’s anxieties about “terrorists, jihadists, liberals.” He whines about how soft Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has gone, snickers at constitutional rights and calculates how best to manipulate the terror alert system before the Republican convention.... a perfect storm of ineptitude, fervency and technophilia.
Ron Charles - Washington Post


[A] laugh-out-loud funny book. I don’t mean a chuckle here or there. This yarn by Congressman Steve Israel is downright hilarious....a race between laughter and absurdity with you as the referee.
Chris Matthews - Hardball


When he's not debuting as a novelist, Israel represents New York's third Congressional District. Naturally, his book has a political bent. After unassuming pharmaceutical salesman Morris Feldstein makes a hasty decision to charge a nonbusiness expense to his company credit card, he's tracked by the government's top-secret surveillance program, which manages to turn him into the new public enemy number one.
Library Journal


When he's not debuting as a novelist, Israel represents New York's third Congressional District. Naturally, his book has a political bent. After unassuming pharmaceutical salesman Morris Feldstein makes a hasty decision to charge a nonbusiness expense to his company credit card, he's tracked by the government's top-secret surveillance program, which manages to turn him into the new public enemy number one.
Booklist


Israel has fun with the bureaucratic side of national security but offers few surprises, while his political jabs are rather flat and facile, and, after all, a decade late....[and] at a time when refugees, casualties and decapitations can make it hard to see the lighter side of any aspect of the war on terror.
Kirkus Reviews