"Although you do not know his name Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann is one of the most talked-about authors in the country right now His most prominent work, which you have not read, is a story for second graders. It begins, “A girl got a pet goat."
Engelmann’s story is the one that George W. Bush was reading in a Florida classroom on the morning of September 11, 2001, at the moment he learned of the terrorist attacks. A videotape of the President holding the book open while staring blankly into space for seven minutes provides the most memorable scene in Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Read the article in The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
