I got lucky, but I wonder how many other people have been censored in the last five or six months

Michael Moore

"They were going to shred all the books if I didn't change the criticism of George W Bush."

Moore alleges that President Bush obtained his position "illegally", and was never properly elected by the American people.

The book also contains an open letter to the president, which Moore describes as "humorous", detailing alleged financial improprieties.

Stupid White Men delves in some detail into the Enron affair.

"I got lucky, but I wonder how many other people have been censored in the last five or six months: people we don't know about, people who don't have the forum that I have," Moore said after the book's publication.

Moore has written an open letter to George Bush

Yet Moore said he was hopeful for the future of America.

"There are a lot of people here who are not stupid white men. They are good people," he said.

"There are 280 million people here.

"Two hundred million of them could be stone-cold idiots, but if there's 80 million people that are actively involved and care about what's going on, that's a hell of a lot of people."

Moore is best known in the UK for his satirical television series TV Nation, and for his 1989 documentary Roger and Me.

The film traces his vain pursuit for an interview, over several years, of the then head of General Motors, Roger Smith.

In the film, Moore chronicles the mixed fortunes of his home town, Flint, in Michigan, after General Motors closes its factory there.