{"product_id":"hitler-saved-my-life-warning-this-book-makes-jokes-about-the-third-reich-the-reign-of-terror-world-war-i-cancer-millard-fillmore-chernobyl-and-nude-photograph-of-an-unattractive-man","title":"Hitler Saved My Life: WARNING―This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and ... nude photograph of an unattractive man.","description":"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.\n\nAdvertising 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.\n\nBut not just any art—Hitler art. Mussolini art. Stalin-in-a-bathtub art.\n\nThis 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.\n\nBe 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.\n\nRelentlessly funny, and scorchingly subversive, this is a bruised and bruising memoir—it is also tubed, scarred, stapled, and irradiated.\n\nBut 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.\n\nAnother 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.\n\nReally, 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.\n\nNow, it will say Here Lies the Guy Who Put Cancer in Its Place—and Mussolini on a Tricycle.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1941393330\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1941393330.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Riswold, Jim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51700765032735,"sku":"PKV.1941393330.G","price":15.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1941393330-0.jpg?v=1771953230","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/hitler-saved-my-life-warning-this-book-makes-jokes-about-the-third-reich-the-reign-of-terror-world-war-i-cancer-millard-fillmore-chernobyl-and-nude-photograph-of-an-unattractive-man","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}