THE EXPERTS SPEAK.

“ I don’t need bodyguards”
- James Hoffa (President of the teamsters Union), Interviewd by jerry Stanecki for Playboy, June 1975.

Jimmy Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975.

I’m no expert but this book is great, The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf and Victor navasky cracked me up, These two boys seem to have hit the nail on the head with this one.
What’s it about? Well its about everything and nothing, Which is to say it is not a novel or a book you can read from cover to cover, but it is interesting.
You know when you have been sitting watching telly and a rather snooty boffin has just declared that he believes that mars is made of green cheese (I know, its made of edam.), Well he had better be careful because Christopher and victor may be watching.
Basically this book is full of all the quotes smart, informed, political and famous people have made and now really wish they hadn’t.

“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (President of the United states), Campaigning for reelection in Boston, October 30, 1940

“1984 is a failure”
- Laurence Brander (British Literary scholar and critic) commenting on George Orwell, 1954

This book covers everything from science to art, politics to social reform and it is worth a read just to see who has really made a prat of themselves.

At 400 pages long (Including the index) It is a medium weight book but an easy read and if it’s not for you, it may help prop up that leg on your coffee table you have been meaning to fix. Either way I would recommend it to any one who wants a good chortle at the experts and feel that maybe there not so bright after all.