When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
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| Author | Bill Maher |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | American Politics |
| Publisher | New Millennium Press |
| Released | 2002 |
| Pages | 132 |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-59777-513-4 |
| Followed by | New Rules: Polite musings from a timid observer |
When you ride ALONE you ride with bin Laden: What the Government SHOULD Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism (ISBN 1-59777-513-4) is a 2002 non-fiction political book by comedian and author Bill Maher. Maher targets American citizens in this publication and notes that the American people are much too wasteful, and while Maher mainly critiques the methods the United States is using to fight the War on Terrorism, he also addresses issues such as oil dependency, environmental destruction, religion, and foreign relations.
In the book, Maher uses vintage World War II posters and manipulates the images to apply to the current issues facing the world and the United States, and he uses each image as the introduction to each new chapter and as the basis for several pages of writing. While written in a humorous style, the comments and suggestions that Maher makes that deal with global issues are serious and genuine. Maher concludes the book with his analysis of how the United States has behaved in comparison to other superpowers in the past, and concludes that, while not infallable, the United States has acted "better" than any other nation in such a position of power.
The title of the book is a reconstruction of a World War II propaganda poster that read "When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler", which suggested that automobile owners carpool to conserve gasoline for the war effort.
