| The Frontman: Bono (in the Name of Power) Contributor(s): Browne, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781680825 ISBN-13: 9781781680827 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| Series: Counterblasts |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.16" W x 7.75" (0.48 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |