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Hitler Saved My Life : What's So Funny about Hitler, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Crucifixion, Mao, Kierkegaard, North Korea, Jeff Koons, WWI, Millard Fillmore, and That Thing Called Cancer by James Riswold (2017, Hardcover)

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When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist," creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life. Advertising legend Jim Riswold is a Big F****** Deal. Ask him, he'll tell you. But when Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer (a two-fer ), the freewheeling adman quits making commercials, and starts making art. But not just any art--Hitler art. Mussolini art. Stalin-in-a-bathtub art. This is not a sad cancer story. This is a molotov cocktail of raunch and heart and 18-gauge biopsy guns. This is a taboo-busting laugh riot, a raspberry blown straight at dying-guy preciousness and monsters of all kinds--cancer and world-historical bad guys included. Be warned--contents of this book include: One profanity-spiked TEDx talk. Several very public, full-frontal dick picks. Two adorable children. Something called "Interferon Family Fun Night." Jim Riswold leading a crowd of people in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" to his oncologist. Relentlessly funny, and scorchingly subversive, this is a bruised and bruising memoir--it is also tubed, scarred, stapled, and irradiated. But here's the secret: Jim Riswold, enfant terrible, the man Charles Barkley once called "a role model for morons," is kind of a sweetheart. The wise-guy posturing is just a cover for his pulpy heart. Another secret: This book isn't about Hitler. It's about the beautiful, stupid, gross, foolish, and fantastic things we're willing to do for love and family and not-dying. It's about a guy who, with due respect to Lou Gehrig, considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Really, Jim Riswold owes cancer a thank-you. Thanks to cancer, his tombstone will no longer read: Here Lies That Guy Who Did That "Bo Knows" Commercial. Now, it will say Here Lies the Guy Who Put Cancer in Its Place--and Mussolini on a Tricycle.

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Publisher
Regan Arts
ISBN-10
1941393330
ISBN-13
9781941393338
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204184674

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Book Title
Hitler Saved My Life : What's So Funny about Hitler, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Crucifixion, Mao, Kierkegaard, North Korea, Jeff Koons, WWI, Millard Fillmore, and That Thing Called Cancer
Author
James Riswold
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Form / Pictorial, Business, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, Humor
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Item Weight
34.6 Oz

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Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hf5810
Reviews
"...this isn't the usual tearjerker cancer story. It is a gleefully offensive cancer story. It is the Blazing Saddles of cancer stories." --New York Journal of Books
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2014-955543
Dewey Decimal
779.092
Dewey Edition
23

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Hitler Saved My Life : What's So Funny about Hitler, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Crucifixion, Mao, Kierkegaard, North Korea, Jeff Koons, WWI, Millard Fillmore, and That Thing Called Cancer by James Riswold (2017, Hardcover)

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