‘Stupid White Men’ honored

“Stupid White Men,” Michael Moore’s irreverent diatribe against President Bush and the conservative movement, was named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.

The British Book Awards are nominated and judged by a panel of 400 publishers, wholesalers and booksellers, together with a telephone vote from the public. The awards, announced Monday night, usually reflect popular public taste rather than the views of the critics.

Organizer Merric Davidson said that Moore’s book was boosted by a strong telephone vote, particularly a “very strong antiwar vote both from insiders in the book business and the public.”