Michael Francis Moore




Michael Francis Moore

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born
April 23, 1954

gender
male

place of birth
Flint, Michigan, The United States

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genre
Nonfiction, Politics, Humor


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Michael Francis Moore is an American author and Academy Award-winning director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine, three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, both of which continue his trademark style of presenting serious documentaries in humorous ways.

Moore is a self-described liberal who has criticized globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system in his written and cinematic works. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.




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avg rating: 3.37 | 7,351 ratings | 530 reviews | 25 distinct works | 16 fans
Stupid White Men Stupid White Men
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.36 — 2,545 ratings — published 2001
28 editions
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Dude, Where's My Country? Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.38 — 2,195 ratings — published 2003
26 editions
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Downsize This Downsize This
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.54 — 670 ratings — published 1996
11 editions
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Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Will They Ever Trust Us Again?
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.60 — 162 ratings — published 2004
7 editions
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Mike's Election Guide Mike's Election Guide
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.43 — 161 ratings — published 2008
6 editions
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Adventures in a TV Nation Adventures in a TV Nation
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.37 — 143 ratings — published 1998
7 editions
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The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 R... The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.68 — 102 ratings — published 2004
10 editions
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Bowling for Columbine Bowling for Columbine
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 3.58 — 36 ratings — published 2003
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Idiot Nation Idiot Nation (Pocket Penguin 70's #24)
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 2.83 — 6 ratings — published 2005
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Tous aux abris : Mike, l'arme... Tous aux abris : Mike, l'arme de dérision massive !
by Michael Francis Moore
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
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"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group.
They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

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Michael Francis Moore
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"How does paying people more money make you more money?

It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend. Remember, they're not just your workers- they're your consumers, too. The more they spend their extra cash on your products, the more your profits go up. Also, when employees have enough money that they don't have to live in constant fear of bankruptcy, they're able to focus more on their work- and be more productive. With fewer personal problems and less stress hanging over them, they'll lose less time at work, meaning more profits for you. Pay them enough to afford a late model car (i.e. one that works), and they'll rarely be late for work. And knowing that they'll be able to provide a better life for their children will not only give them a more positive attitude, it'll give them hope- and an incentive to do well for the company because the better the company does, the better they'll do.

Of course, if you're like most corporations these days- announcing mass layoffs right after posting record profits- then you're already hemorrhaging the trust and confidence of your remaining workforce, and your employees are doing their jobs in a state of fear. Productivity will drop. That will hurt sales. You will suffer. Ask the people at Firestone: Ford has alleged that the tire company fired its longtime union employees, then brought in untrained scab workers who ended up making thousands of defective tires- and 203 dead customers later, Firestone is in the toilet."
Michael Francis Moore (Stupid White Men)
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"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "
Michael Francis Moore
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