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Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

From the publisher:

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

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Fiction

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Title is longstanding trademark of General Mills. Drawings in work not up to trade-mark owner's standards.

The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger
Fashion house trade name in title. (Bonus libel concern: title may be factually inaccurate.)

Food & Culture

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser
Cover evocative of McDonald's super-size fries through use of chain's signature colors.

Politics & Media

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, by Bernard Goldberg
"CBS" in subtitle suggests that work is endorsed by the network.

World Economy

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, by Thomas L. Friedman
Auto company's name improperly associated with misshapen tree.

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