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Has America found its newest pundit...a mix of Mel Brooks, George Carlin and Michael Moore, with a dash of Woody Allen and Bill Murray?

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Has America found its newest pundit...a mix of Mel Brooks, George Carlin and Michael Moore, with a dash of Woody Allen and Bill Murray?

That’s how Broadway actor turned satiric author Alexander Tressor is being

described, thanks to his new book, Observations of an Uneducated Mind.

As a globe-hopping artist, instructor and performer, Alexander says, “It’s time America heard from a dancer!” And while listeners have been getting an earful from his radio show, he needs a larger stage to promote his unique world view: Alexander Tressor, Planetary Voice of Reason.

“If the Earth could talk, it would probably scream for everyone to just get off,” he quips. “It has no protection from human shortsightedness. How quickly we forget that the Earth is our only home in the universe.”

Alexander finds much of what passes in America for political discourse—on the Op-Ed pages, TV, radio, and the Internet—to be mere ranting, dominated by policy wonks, journalists, and bitter ex-politicians.

So, into this increasingly predictable and divisive political debate comes his book—with a fresh, funny, poignant look at the nation and world at large, from a most unlikely critic.

Observations of an Uneducated Mind is an ambitious, funny, irreverent romp through contemporary American culture and values. It’s a fresh, vivacious take on subjects too often simplified and dumbed down by dour pundits.

The book offers a far-reaching critique, with just the right blend of insight and irony, of the political and social issues of our time. The author advocates nothing short of throwing the old thinking off the train and looking at the world anew.

“What ails this country won’t be solved by either political party; they are the problem,” Alexander notes.

Instead, he advocates a complete, top to bottom change in way people think (and neglect to think). Popular culture, advertising, rampant consumerism, and politics are only a few of the topics that are set ablaze in his bonfire.

“This book is for anyone with a healthy sense of humor and a wish to change the world,” he says. “It has many messages, but the main one is that life is not programmed and controlled by Madison Avenue, the government, or an oil company.”