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Today's raucous revolt against Washington and Wall Street is a classic populist uprising. Now two respected political pollsters show what it means for the future of American politics.

The riotous tea parties and town hall meetings of last summer seemingly took everyone by surprise. They shouldn't have. Populist movements have always arisen in times of economic hardship. Here, Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen explore the heart of the uprising that has thrown American politics into turmoil.

In the past, populist movements have taken root either on the right or on the left. Today's revolt has two wings: a left wing that wants universal health care and a right wing that wants to reduce the power of governmental influence in our lives. Both are hostile to the Washington political class, Wall Street, and the mainstream media -- all of which they consider out of touch with the concerns of ''real'' Americans. The difference is that left-wing populists are effectively represented by Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, while right-wing populists are chiefly represented by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh -- a potentially more powerful political force.Many have failed to comprehend the new populism, dismissing it as marginal and extreme. But it is reshaping American politics, whether politicians and elite journalists like it or not. The Tea Party movement is not a flash in the pan. Nor is it a movement of racist rednecks and ignorant boobs, as some have crudely suggested. It is an authentic grassroots movement of concerned American citizens demanding to be heard by an out-of-touch political establishment. Their concerns are real, their issues legitimate. The new populism is here to stay, and it has already changed our politics for the better.Mad As Hell is an authoritative guide to the new populism, featuring proprietary polling data, political analysis, results from online focus groups, and more. It is a must-read for anyone interested in American electoral politics. ... Read more

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Mad as Hell
Mad as Hell - provides more important history about our Country than I have found in any other recent publications.It would be great if every person over the age of 13 could/should read this book.
John R. Freeland

An interesting read.
An informative, interesting book with an in depth perspective of the Tea Party movement.The reporting indicates the fact that much research went into compiling all the facts.

A must read for anyone interested in or curious about the effect the Tea Party is having on American politics.

Good review on Tea Party movement
Some of the facts and opinions stated in the book I disagreed with but as the authors stated the Tea Party movement is phenominal and the greatest of its kind in American history.The book gives a good idea of how the movement started and grew and what its values and principles are.This movement will influence our government and the path our nation will take in the future.

Read this before November
This book states the obvious to those of a conservative tilt, but it is still denied by the most liberal in the country. It is a very good read for those in the middle who want to know what is going on in America today.

Something totally new and lasting?
The authors claim the Tea Party Movement is a "...never-before-seen phenomenon in American Politics",because "... the great American Center has begun to crack under pressure of hard core aggressive populism from the political left and political right...".They view the Tea Party as a "... true bottom-up movement..." that is not a fad that will soon fade but will fundamentally change the American political structure.Insider elites will lose power to the outsiders, "ordinary people".Populists will rule. This will occur even if there is a total recovery from the Great Recession (including on the job front).The country will not revert to politics as usual even in a booming economy.But a skeptical reader might ask: Don't outsiders who gain power after awhile become insider elitists and is the Tea Party so ideologically pure that its passion and strength will not be significantly reduced by plentiful jobs and good times?The two authors' vision of the future seems to contain an element of wishful thinking.We shall see.




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Here is the last work of Barbara Olson, tragically killed in the Terrorist attacks of September 11. This book reveals the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office. ... Read more

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the one good thing about 9/11
Whenever I think of the atrocities perpetrated on America on September 11, 2001, I reflect upon Barbara Olson, and I feel just a little better.Thanks for brightening up my day.

America Swooned While Mental Illness Occupied the White House
This book was written by Barbara Olson prior to her tragic death in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the pentagon, and published posthumously.It is a well researched, frank, hard hitting book, and Ms. Olson tells it like it is.

Chapter by Chapter Ms. Olson takes up abuses of power in the Clinton administration from spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on personal travel; abuse of the executive order; lying under oath; presidential pardons and sentence commutations of fugitive money lenders, former members of Congress, a former CIA director, friends of Jesse Jackson, Clinton campaign contributors, a cross section of the Clinton cabinet, bank robbers, small- and big-time crooks, friends, relatives, ex-girlfriends, con men, terrorists, perjurers, and tax evaders, all for personal gain; to stealing literally truckloads of furniture and furnishings from the White House that belonged to the citizens of the United States.These things and many others the Clintons did with almost total impunity and with little scrutiny from the press until it was long overdue.

It took Barbara Olson almost to the end of the book to come out and say it.Bill Clinton was for eight years a truly irrational person, someone who lived on the edge of serious mental illness.He was a psychologically sick man who, first as governor and then as president, risked his marriage, his office, his bond with the voters, and the creditability of his party to gratify his personal needs.Hillary was more than an accomplice; she called the shots, only to have no knowledge of what went on, or any recall of it.

This book published before its time.It should be on the best seller list now to refresh people's memories.

Now Hillary wants eight more years for her and Bill in the White House.I guess they didn't get finished looting the place or fleecing the taxpayers the last time.We certainly need Barbara Olson today more than ever.May she rest in peace?

The Final Days
You won't be voting for Hillary if you read this book. Shame on both the Clinton's. How do they sleep at night knowing what they have done. The book is really worth the time to read it. I strongly recommend it just to get your blood to boil. Sorry the author isn't around anymore to uncover additional information. I would like to see Barbara Olson and Micheal Moore collaborate on a movie.......that, I would pay good money to see!

A book about two topics: pardon and donation.
I listened to the audio version of this book. While most of the things said in this book may be true, it appears a bit biased. In addition to facts, the author uses some adjectives which show her personal dislike of the famous couple.

In the end, I had an impression that this book grew out of author's frustration upon Mark Rich pardon. Many chapters are dedicated to that case.

A disproportionately large portion of the book is devoted to two topics: pardon and donations. At one point the audio book spends a large amount of time only listing names of who donated what item. It goes on and on and on with names that make no sense and contribute nothing much to the story. That could have been moved to the appendix to keep the flow going.

I was hoping to find details about mischievious behavior by Clinton staff during the last days. There was no mention of that.

FAILING TO CROSSOVER
"The much talked about Marc Rich pardon has become an appropriate symbol of the entire eight years, but Mrs. Olson does a commendable service by clearly detailing the effrontery of his (Rich's) misdeeds, and an even more skillful demonstration of the President's specious and insulting attempt to justify this shocking act. To add fuel to her raging fire, she quotes former President Jimmy Carter who openly stated "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion that was disgraceful."

Naturally, given her neo-con bent, Ms. Olsen failed to mention the extremely salient point that the attorney representing Marc Rich's pardon application was none other than Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's aide.



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Republican Gomorrah is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal, and sordidness from the dark heart of the theocratic forces that now have a leash on the party. It shows how those forces are the ones that establishment Republicans, like John McCain, have to bow to if they have any hope of running for president. More that just an exposé, Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the movement's leading figures are stained by crisis and scandal: depression, mental illness, extramarital affairs, struggles with homosexual urges, heavy medication, pornography addiction, serial domestic abuse, and even murder. Inspired by the work of psychologist Erich Fromm, who asserted that the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings, Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crisis has defined the radical right, transformed the Republican Part, and set the stage for the future of American politics. ... Read more

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Hypocritical Theocrats Exposed (so to speak!)
Ever want to see what the origin of the "End Times" of democracy looks like? Would you like to experience an intolerant, enslaving, human rights-less theocracy? How would you like all this at the hands of self-annoited moralists who, through astounding examples of hypocrisy, work ardently to hide their own ethical failures then resort to moral relativism when they can no longer control the story? Kind of sounds far-fetched, doesn't it?

But it's the U.S.A. today, and Mr. Blumenthal painstakingly ties together the linkages between the philosphical, psychological, and monetary sources of any such theocracy and the elected and non-elected power-brokers occupying our legislatures, government agencies, and halls of justice lo these past 3 or so decades. To be clear, Mr. Blumenthal does not so directly describe the demise of American democracy as above. However, he provides an ample number of relevant data points that a reasonably objective reader might be forgiven for interpreting as an eye-opening, if not outrightly dangerous, trend in American governance.

One thing Mr. Blumenthal does conclude, early and often, is that the Republican Party is deep within the sway of these theocratic forces. Right there at the end of the Introduction, penned as the 2008 election results were being tallied, he writes "The characters I have profiled may not represent a majority in terms of sheer numbers, but through their combined power, they reflect the dominant character of the movement -- and by extension, of the Republican Party they have subsumed." Well, here we are a mere 2 years later, and looking at the political candidates offered by the right during the 2010 elections, it appears the movement continues to gain numbers AND strength.

Note for Kindle users: there are 313 detailed end-notes at the end of the narrative, and not one of them is linked to the text. Actually, the paper-bound versions of the book don't appear to provide note-numbering in the narrative either. Mr. Blumenthal's work is so rigorously supported, that any such numbering/linking would likely get in the way of the reading experience. There's also a nice index in the back, and it, too, is not linked. But Kindle users can merely highlight the index entry they want and obtain context-oriented search results from the entire text in a few moments. Very nice.

Blumenthal has succeeded again!
This is an excellent book that is very well researched.It is interesting, engaging, and sure to surprise you.I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a different view on the republican party than what is spread by Faux News and other right wing toxic talkers.

ignorance is bliss
Almost wish that I hadn't read this book, to many very ugly facts about our supposedly representative government...!

Informative and Fun to Read
Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party is a brilliant analysis of the psychological disorders that inform the actions and beliefs of the fundamentalist wing of the Republican party. Blumenthal defines this faction of the Repubicans as "almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly evangelical, fixated on abortion, homosexuality, and abstinence education; resentful and angry; and unable to discuss how and why it had become this way." The author attempts to figure out precisely this: why and how the moderate sector of the Republicans has been taken over by the Bible-thumping, scary freaks.

Blumenthal arrives at the conclusion that in order to recruit people for their movement, evangelical fundamentalists rely on the culture of trauma. The author analyzes the "culture of personal crisis undergirding the Christian right" and discovers that all prominent fundamentalists come to their radical beliefs from the background of problematic families, sexual and physical abuse. The evangelicals are often so insistent on the correctness of corporal punishment for children precisely because abused kids later form a pool of possible new converts. Blumenthal analyzes the lives of a striking number of famous evangelical fundamentalists and discovers just how much their actions follow the pattern exhibited by sadomasochistic personalities.

Among other kinds of trauma that the fanatical evangelicals bent on overtaking this country welcome, the recession is the one that has made them really happy and has driven crowds of desperate people to their ugly megachurches and hateful sermons. Behind the rhetoric of exaggerated, screaming patriotism, the evangelicals conceal their readiness to rejoice over every kind of suffering experienced by the American people. This suffering is their best hope of finding new converts traumatized enough to buy into the cannibalistic beliefs of the Christian right.

We all know that prominent evangelicals have a tendency to be besieged by scandal at every turn. Blumenthal analyzes the connection between these people's tortured backgrounds and insane ideology on the one hand and the nature of the sexual scandals they are involved in on the other. Brought together, these stories of hatred informed by depravity and hypocrisy make a daunting impression. How come we allow these decidedly unhealthy individuals play such an important role in this country's politics?

In the secod half of his book, Blumenthal demonstrates how the Christian right set out to hijack McCain's presidential campaign from the start. According to the journalist, McCain was forced to accept the fiercely fanatical Sarah Palin as his running mate in order to pacify the fundamentalists. We all know, of course, where that led him.

Blumenthal writes extremely well. Even though he discusses a significant number of stories in his book, he manages to avoid confusing the reader with an abundance of dates, names, and details. The book is structured extremely well and is written in a lucid, beautiful prose style. This is decidedly not a holiday type of reading. It is unlikely to make you feel very hopeful for the political future of the country that allows a crowd of truly sick individuals to acquire such an incredible prominence. However, everybody who cares about this country has to understand that there is no greater threat to the United States than these fanatics.

Interesting and Provocative, But Too Speculative
"Republican Gomorrah" is a prime example of "a great book that might have been."But my first quibble is with the rather sensational title.The book is less about the Republican Party than certain elements functioning, often uncomfortably and sometimes angrily, within it.And that element, according to Blumenthal, is a pastiche of Christian evangelical and fundamentalist organizations like "Focus on the Family," "The Promise Keepers," and the aggressively millenialist "Third Wave" movement.But I would not call these threads a "movement" in any coherent sense except insofar as they might have similar socio-political objectives and use the Republican Party as a platform in this reach for power, a platform that, even Blumenthal concedes, can be very shaky at best.

How, then, does Blumenthal chart a "movement?"This is main problem with the book.I believe that he looks at stated socio-political objectives and all too readily at times ascribes identical power-reaching methodologies to different groups with different theological moorings, essentially presenting these groups as a kind of camarilla.I don't think he marshals enough evidence of ties between organizations to make this rather far-reaching and even sightly conspiratorial theory work well.A pretty fair amount of "cherry picking" goes on in this book, and while the similitudes are provocative, they do not a compelling case make, much less anything "shattering."

But, the great strength of the book is the organization Blumenthal sees as the center of this fractious web - Focus on the Family.Here, the author has clearly done a significant amount of homework about the organization, its structure, its "modus operandi" in politics, and its founder, Dr. James Dobson.And the picture he paints is alternatively benevolently and darkly Orwellian, but no less stifling, vaguely schizophrenic, and even a shade "cultish."Some have called his characterizations of "Focus" hateful and mean-spirited.I am less sure of that.Blumenthal punctuates his critique of this lock-down group with sometimes empathetic and pitying observations, and worries that sometimes people with the best of intentions can incidentally create the worst monsters.His portrayal of Ted Haggard is especially pitiful.So while Blumenthal may have no love for this group, he certainly takes no glee in the downfall of some of its most prominent and not-so-prominent members.But, he clearly sees the organization as wanting to be nurturing in a Manichean kind of way, but falling time and again into duplicity and the chase for power which not only creates internal problems for the group, but has led individual lives breaking into pieces when they somehow run afoul of a too-rigid orthodoxy "Focus" leaders seem to routinely disregard when less than convenient.Blumenthal lays out quite a morality play where endings are often less than happy.

The main weakness, however, especially prominent towards the end, is his deployment of a theoretical psycho-historical construct which ascribes much of the self-loathing and even delusional behavior he documents to a kind of necrophiliac urge finding its ultimate expression in masochistic negationism.This is not new, and enough anecdotal evidence and philosophy exists to make the theory a provocative and illuminating interpretive mode.But, I don't think Blumenthal takes enough care to differentiate "theory" from "hard empirical fact" here, and this could mislead readers. This does not mean he is wrong to use this approach, but more back citing and explanation is needed to justify the selection.I thought it was a jarring and even inexplicable shift from the more detached "reporting" and personal tones found in the rest of the book.

The sources I checked out seem solid and in context without distortions, but the lack of footnoting was a problem for me and made the task difficult.Also, my copy did have some typos and the book could have used another good editing.It needs a rework in those departments.

A provocative book, and, in parts, a thoughtful one but with the limitations I pointed out.Had he stuck with "Focus on the Family" as opposed to his more frenetic approach, I think the work would have been far, far stronger.

Recommended with noted reservations.

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How many communist friends do you have?
How many people did you know when you were growing up that said they were communist and sided with communist countries instead of America?How many of your friends were in organizations that tried to blow up the Pentagon? The author brings up a large number of items that show why the government today does not relate to a typical American.

This book is an easy read pointing out a large number of items that have been happening in America that the media and government say we are just "not smart enough" to understand.When you have politicians promising you everything and saying it won't cost anything...you are just too stupid to believe them.The media jumps on board and says not only are you stupid for not believingeverything the politicians are telling you, "Even though they laughingly admit that no one has actually read all 2000 pages of the bills" but you are a racist too.

The author does a nice job making you realize that the majority of the country feel the same way as you do and the current elected official and media are really the ones that are out of touch with the American people.

Is Anybody Listening?
In the interest of full disclosure, and before I begin discussing "That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom," I want to acknowledge that I am the veteran of two Houston tea-parties.I attended the first event out of curiosity, the second out of hope that someone in government might actually listen to what was said there.Of course, no one did.

Let's face it.Politicians think citizens pay so little attention to what happens in our national and state capitols that they will believe anything a government spokesman tells them.These same "representatives of the people" believe, often correctly, that a little bit of spin will cover even the dumbest legislation, most vile criminal acts, and worst wastes of taxpayer money imaginable.But, at some point, politicians are no longer able to baffle the public with BS - and that is when things get ugly.When character assassination of its critics becomes the government's weapon of choice in political debate, a tipping point has been reached.

Radio talk-show host Michael Graham has organized tea-parties in the Boston area, events attended by his mother, among others.Graham sees who attends the tea-parties ("retirees, military vets, small business owners, and suburban families"), has read the hundreds of handheld signs, and has experienced the tea-party atmosphere first hand.What he describes in "That's No Angry Mob" is almost exactly what I observed for myself in Houston: a gathering in large numbers of citizens concerned that the country is being relentlessly driven toward bankruptcy and that the future of their children and grandchildren is in jeopardy.

The government's response to all this citizen concern has been to label every single attendee of a tea-party event as a racist and/or a domestic terrorist.Even the Speaker of the House, tear in her eye and tremor in her voice, hints that she fears a deranged assassin or two will be motivated by what he or she hears at a tea-party.And, of course, the national media share the Speaker's concerns, as well as her lack of subtlety and self-awareness.

"That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom" offers little new information to those who have paid attention to recent current events.It does, however, offer a nice recap of the absurdity of the government's response to the threat it feels from citizens (many of them elderly) wanting to ask questions of those who should have their best interests in mind.Graham, who is also a former stand-up comic, has a keen ear for comic timing and uses comedic one-liners throughout the book to keep it relatively light despite the intensity of the hatred directed at him (and all tea-party attendees and talk-radio listeners) by those so determined to minimize them by destroying their reputations.

Despite the way Graham uses humor in discussing the very personal attack on Americans who dare openly disagree with the administration's policies, he makes serious, and distressing, points like this one: "And the liberals who suspect (and some who openly proclaim) that most Americans are selfish, bigoted dolts, have amplified that message.They divided America into two groups: people who support Obama and his policies on the one hand, and racist holdouts on the other."To many tea-partiers this is the most distressing thing of all about today's politics.Never in recent memory has the race card so often been pulled from the bottom of the deck to shut down legitimate public dissent.Is this what we have come to?

Rated at: 3.5

Good first half
The book is generally well written and entertaining.The best part is the first half.It gets a little repetitive after that!

That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom
I loved this book!It explained the tea party's common beliefs, their basis in history and government, and treatment by the media.The book is so well written it is difficult to put down.The issues are presented with humor and documentation of accuracy.The many examples of the double standard in the news media proved the arguments so well.I recommend this book to anyone who has questions about the tea party, the media, and our current government.America needs Talk Radio, FOX news and our First Amendment Rights.

Great book!
This book is a very easy read for someone who wants to understand the Tea Party movement, from a personal perspective. Highly recommend for sharing with your doubting friends. ... Read more

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This groundbreaking manifesto is essential reading for tea party activists—or any American seeking to understand what the Tea Party is fighting for and what's next for the movement

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Give Us Liberty
This is a great refresher course on the role of the US Constitution in our lives, the intent of the Constitutional wording, the context in which the Amendments were created, and the framework in which the Constitution applys to todays runaway Federal Government.It becomes blatantly obvious that the current US President and Congress are ignoring the roll the Constitution plays in executing their jobs as caretakers/trustees of our Nation.I highly recommend this book and the CD to anyone that believes in, and has been victimized by the political fog created by the current administration.
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Here's your one-stop guide to everything Hillary and her staff don't want you to know. Written in the style and format of Regnery Publishing's New York Times bestsellers The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and Politically Incorrect GuidesT, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton is full of fresh reporting, devastating quotes, scandalous stories, funny sidebars, and forgotten but telling incidents from Hillary's past. ... Read more

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Well Written
By all accounts this book is well written and even provocative.The better half of the last two decades have seen a dedicated effort by the Republican party and conservatives at large, to question, if not criticize the Clinton's rise to political prominence.No more criticism in their tenure than during Mrs. Clinton's stint running for president just two years ago.

I recall very vividly attending a book discussion early in the release of this piece, hosted I believe by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.Amanda was vivacious, captivating even and her meteoric rise with this publication gave her a wisdom beyond her years.The book is well-written and thorough, and while I wish she would choose a more intellectual topic for her to exercise her writing prowess; I mark that it is equally honoring to Mrs. Clinton in that it avoids personal attacks and focuses primarily on Mrs. Clinton's financial choices over the past several years as a New York Senator.

Richard Giberti reviews Amanda Carpenter's "Dossier on Hillary Clinton...
In an effort to objectively write a key chapter in my book,America, You Will Be Destroyed !: Thus Saith The Lord - and Other Amazing PropheciesI read Ms. Carpenter's book as a part of my research. While many other Hillary books focused on her and husband Bill's scandals, Carpenter's book tried to capture the psyche and inner workings of the former First Lady as well.

The paperclips and dog-ears seemed a little contrived at first, but I realize that it did give the appearance of a dossier that had been compiled against an enemy agent! I felt that the little, seemingly insignificant or trivial details of her life and childhood helped me to paint a better mental picure of the driving forces in Hillary's life. As a former national and state licensed therapist, the little details helped me to create a case study snapshot. The influences of the feminist movement, her continued pursuit and espousal of radicalism and socialism, her upbringing under a driven father, the upheaval of the 60's, the me-generation of the 70's, the self-consciousness towards her own body (specifically her legs), the disdain and reproachful way Bill treated her... Whew, her issues of being driven, loathing of men in general, thirst for power/dominance and control, all make sense. as another reviewer said, "When peeling back the layers, we need to know this stuff to get at what makes Hillary tick."

Looking at all the background and biographical details makes me realize (and hopefully others) that in her machinations we see clearly that she has not become more conservative or even centrist. She is a radical socialist to the core, and the most frightening thng in this revelation is that she seems to truly believe that she alone is right, that she alone is the people's champion and this sense of righteous indignation fuels her passionately to apire to the pinnacle of power at all costs.

Like a true socialist, Hillary will do anything and everything to obtain power. She will reinvent herself over and over to do so. This book shows clearly that pragmatism is all a pose to make her attractive to the broad electorate. For her, the end (her obtaining power) will justify any means.

What was most noteworthy to me, was the exposure of two significant points. One, Hillary really despises conservative Christianity and the traditional family structure; and two, when she feels threatened or makes a mistake etc, she will lash out and attack anyone, someone to take the heat off herself. I believe that much of her angst towards conservative, traditional culture is based on her indoctrination by her radical youth minister that had espoused the hard-core anarchist philosophy of Saul Alinsky.

The raw data and files and documents provided in "Dossier" were helpful in evaluating the depth and extent of Hillary (and Bill's) corruption.

History of Women Running for President
Those who'd like to explore the history of women running for President might want to read two collections of speeches by the first woman to run for the White House--Victoria Woodhull in 1872. She's a fascinating person. Even today, her ideas about sexuality and social programs make Hillary Clinton look like a cranky, hide-bound reactionary.

Free Lover: Sex, Marriage And Eugenics in the Early Speeches of Victoria Woodhull

Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches And Writings of Victoria Woodhull

The Way to Beat Hillary
This book is a road map for Hillary Clinton's defeat. I just hope the Republicans read it and get their heads out of the sand.
Carol Ann Wilson
Houston TX

History After 2000
This was an interesting CD to listen to because it gave a history of what Senator Clinton has been up to since she left the White House.It is some what of a rehash of other stories but it has new information too.I thought it was enticing the way the Clintons are doing the one, two punch for campaign contributions.Bill goes out and exploits the fact that he was President to his financial gain. Then he can give the money to his wife for his political gain no matter where he got it from because they are married. It's a pretty sweet scam.

The CD also tells about the policies that she intends to implement and that most of it is for financial gain and power and not to help the people.I like the part where with all her pork barrel project her state was one of the few that was going down economically while the rest of the country was moving up.

So all in all it was just funny stuff to hear and pretty tongue in cheek. If you're a die-hard Hillary fan I don't think you'll hate it, just say it's all lies and laugh it off.
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“The immutable fact of politics in America is this: liberals hate conservatives.”

Ann Coulter, whose examination of the Clinton impeachment was a major national bestseller and earned widespread praise, now takes on an even tougher issue. At a time when Democrats and Republicans should be overwhelmingly congenial, American political debate has become increasingly hostile, overly personal, and insufferably trivial. Whether conducted in Congress or on the political talk shows, played out at dinners or cocktail parties, politics is a nasty sport.

At the risk of giving away the ending: It’s all liberals’ fault.

Cultlike in their behavior, vicious in their attacks on Republicans, and in almost complete control of mainstream national media, the left has been merciless in portraying all conservatives as dumb, racist, power hungry, homophobic, and downright scary. This despite the many Republican accomplishments of the last few decades, as well as the Bush administration’s expert handling of the country’s affairs in the wake of the worst attacks on American soil and of the war that followed.

With incisive reasoning and meticulous research, Ann Coulter examines the events and personalities that have shaped modern political discourse—the bickering, backstabbing, and name-calling that have made cultural mountains out of partisan molehills. She demonstrates how the media, especially, are biased—and usually wrongheaded—and have done all in their power to obfuscate the issues and the people behind them, bending over backward to villainize and belittle the right, while rarely missing an opportunity to praise the left.

Perhaps if conservatives had had total control over every major means of news dissemination for a quarter century, they would have forgotten how to debate, too, and would just call liberals stupid and mean. But that’s an alternative universe. In this universe, the public square is wall-to-wall liberal propaganda.

Refreshingly honest and unerringly timely, Slander continues where Bernard Goldberg’s number one bestselling Bias left off.


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"Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half century," writes conservative pundit Ann Coulter, author of the bestselling anti-Clinton tome High Crimes and Misdemeanors. They've been especially wrong about Republicans, she writes. The bulk of Slander, in fact, is a well-documented brief dedicated to the proposition that most of the media despises anybody whose political opinions lie an inch to the right of the New York Times editorial page. This is hardly an original observation, though few have presented it with such verve. Coulter is the shock-jock of right-wing political commentary, able to dash off page after page of over-the-top but hilarious one-liners: "Liberals dispute slight reductions in the marginal tax rates as if they are trying to prevent Charles Manson from slaughtering baby seals." There's a certain amount of irony about an author who says "liberals prefer invective to engagement" also declaring, "The good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out your base, bomb foreigners, and rape women, and the Democratic faithful will still think you're the greatest." But then carefully measured criticism never has been Coulter's shtick--or her appeal. Fans of Rush Limbaugh and admirers of Bernard Goldberg's Bias won't want to miss Slander. --John Miller ... Read more

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Coulter is spot on, but the book is dated
The text is showing its age. For those of us who became conservatives because we realized, through experience, how unhealthy it is to be liberal, we're learning nothing new. Experience has taught us that conservatism provides a better, healthier way of life. I agree with Coulter on 99% of what she writes in Slander.

At the same time, this book is a rant, and the rant gets tiring. She repeats a lot of the same information (and attacks!!!) multiple times in one section of a single chapter. She could have made her point with more concise writing.

Coulter researched the book, which is another plus. She provides TONS of footnotes. She encourages readers to utilize LexisNexis so that they can do their own research and draw their own conclusions.

Coulter's books are often verbose, acerbic, and intense, but Coulter herself holds strong, conservative, admirable values. And it takes a lot of courage to share those values with the world.

Ann Coulter still searching to write a book on something she is 1/2 competent about
Pat Roberston and Jerry Falwell blamed the 9/11 attacks on atheists, gays, feminists, abortionists etc. Did he mention the awful job that Bush (who was president for 8 months after all) did in preventing the attacks? No. Falwell stated and Roberston agreed that those groups leta deity to take away his supposedumbrella of protection away from America. So, these "blame America" first individuals blame an attack committed by religious nuts on freethinkers and securlarists? Coulter's reaction in her book, well it was wrong for Walter Cronkite to criticize these nutjobs. Isn't Coulter big on this kick of all who criticize rightwing presidents are traitors, unamericans, unpatriotic, etc? I guess blaming America and not the terrorists doesn't count, huh?

Strong medicine for weak liberal minds
Coulter pulls no punches in her masterful expose of the liberal press.Coulter disembowels the liberal establishment with 'Ninjaesque' deftness.If you can handle the *big* words, have rudimentary math and logic skills, and aren't afraid of critical thinking then you might find this book as hilariously revealing as I did.Quite a tour de force!

Just awful
I don't fit a potitical classification ... but this is just plain drivel.Convoluted, mean, bizarre thinking.I worry about our country after reading this.

The Liberal Bias & ObamaNation
Ann Coulter's incisive perspective into the liberal bias against the American right was written several years before ObamaNation was even considered a possibility; her observations ring prophetic.The situation has even gotten more biased, as a new President has taken over the reigns & appears to be leading this country down the perilous path of socialism; to this point he's received a mysterious free pass from the press.

No matter what Obama does or doesn't do seems to be accepted carte blanche from a media who clearly appears to be shills for the President's vague agenda.Certainly, the American public has grown increasingly disgruntled recently over issues ranging from his handling of the economy & health care to his lack of transparency over his past; including his eligibility to even be our President.

This appears to be a one term Presidency for Obama, barring an unforseen miracle in his erratic decision making.We need a leader who is more centrist to resolve this nation's problems & it seems likely that won't be forthcoming.I only hope we can survive the next three and a half years without total chaos.

It doesn't look good at this particular point in time; Coulter has continued to raise valid concerns in an enlightening and entertaining manner, providing America with a refreshingly conservative perspective.



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He's the media's darling, the fresh face of the Democratic ticket. But what does BarackObama really stand for--and will his extreme liberal agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country? That's what David Freddoso, investigative reporter and National Review Online columnist, examines in The Case Against Barack Obama. In this shocking exposé, Freddoso explores the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults behind the façade, revealing:

* Why Obama's inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today
* Why the Rev. Wright debacle reveals Obama's poor judgment of character and deceitful nature
* Why it won't be politics of change with President Obama--it will be liberal politicsas usual

Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the #1most liberal U.S. senator, and--if he were commander in chief--a serious threat to ournational security. ... Read more

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Author Misses the Point
On Page 233, the author states, "It's not that Barack Obama is a bad person."Wrong!Obama is a venal, vile, evil scoundrel who is destroying this country internally and externally.If the author doesn't comprehend that, how valuable is the rest of the book?In fairness, he sheds light on Obama's aiding and abetting of corruption in Chicago.Instead of this book, I highly recommend "Obama Nation."I just ordered "The Manchurian President," which looks promising.

Eye opener!
Wow what an eye opener to what Obama is really all about.His associations with some very bad people and his dirty political ways are scary.The author exposes lots of real information that if many of the voting public would have known prior to the 2008 election, they would have voted differently.Obama's agenda is definitely socialist and he is trying to take away many freedoms and liberties of our country from the inside out.His connections in Illinois politics are not good, and he is also connected with many known criminal minds.If we don't vote him out in 2010 we won't have a country left.

The Case Against Barack Obama.. Reviewer: F Anderson
If only more people had paid attention before the election.. Now if the only they pay attention by the time the next election rolls around. This book will aid and will hopefully open enough eyes.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Would You Pick These People As Your Advisors? Obama Did. Its Change but crazy change

- Anita Dunn, former White House Communications Director is on record stating Mao Tse Tung & Mother Theresa are her two favorite philosophers. She actually defended the Mao statement

- Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar, who claimed he became a Marxist while in prison. Was ousted only after signing petitions claiming Bush Administration carried out 9/11

- Cass Sunstein the Regulator Czar who questioned the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms & who's 2004 book states he believes animals should be permitted to bring suit, w/ human beings as their representatives

- Science Czar John Holdren who co-authored a book Ecoscience where he proposed population controls by putting sterilants in drinking water & forced abortions

- Energy Czar, Carol Browner was an official member of Socialist Internationals Commission For A Sustainable World Society til summer 08, a group who's key position is that rich countries must shrink their economies to address Global Warming

- Mark Lloyd, FCC Diversity Czar -he praises the "democratic revolution and rise to power" of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Calls for white media execs to set down so minorities can take their place

- Tim Geithner. Failed to pay his taxes for 4 years. When caught by the IRS for 2 years, he paid them but not the other 2. Only paid them when appointed Sec. Of Treasury, which if you don't know, runs the IRS. His AIG ties are another disturbing matter you can look up for yourself.

After being associated with the vile Reverend Wright or terrorist bomber William Ayeres, their backgrounds come as no surprise to me.

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Would You Defend Tillman Act?

The Presidents State Of The Union Address public criticism Of Courts Decision On Citizens United Vs. Federal Elections Commission is wrong and ironic.
Aside from the decisions support of our 1st amendment that says that congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech, it also threw out Tillman Act passed in 1907.
The act is named for Senator Benjamin Ryan "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman (1847-1918) (D-SC). He was one of the most despicable men to have ever served in the US Senate and is said to have done more to establish the Jim Crow system in the South than any other single person. In the post-War south, he was a leader of the "Red Shirts", a terrorist paramilitary group organized to attack and intimidate blacks and Republicans.
His Red Shirts' campaign of murder, violence, and fraud led to the defeat of South Carolina's integrated reconstruction Republican government. Arguing that, "The negro must remain subordinated or be exterminated," He openly called for the murder of blacks in order to, "keep the white race at the top of the heap."
Elected South Carolina Governor in 1890, he then created South Carolina's 1'st literacy test for voters and he promoted a number of property and educational requirements for voting. For his services, South Carolina sent him to the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1895 until his death in 1918
His intent in the Tillman act was aimed to cut the power of northern industrialists, Republicans, whom Tillman hated in part because of their more liberal attitudes on race. That the President should publicly challenge the Supreme court over this matter is unprecedented, that he should decide to defend the Tillman act and all it was intended to represent, is sad and ironic.

A Must Read ....
David Freddoso did his homework.It is not propaganda or yellow journalism.It is documented facts, presented in a clear and concise manner, absent any personal agenda.Barack Obama himself said that if we want to know who he really is, we should look at the people he surrounds himself with.Well, this book does just that .. in detail.

As our president, Barack Obama weilds a lot of power, which he can use to either make or break this country.It is important we know what type of human being our president really is - how he thinks, what he really believes, who his confidants are, who has influenced him during his formative years and how he has really lived.This book reveals the true Barack Obama and it is not pretty. ... Read more

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Bestselling author David Brock documents the most important political development of the last thirty years: How the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.

Over the last several decades, the GOP has built a powerful media machine—newspapers and magazines, think tanks, talk radio networks, op-ed columnists, the FOX News Channel, Christian Right broadcasting, book publishers, and high-traffic Internet sites—to sell conservatism to the public and discredit its opponents. David Brock’s penetrating analysis of news stories, from the disputed 2000 presidential election to the war in Iraq to the political battles of 2004, reveals that this booming right-wing media market is largely based on bigotry, ignorance, and emotional manipulation closely tied to America’s long-standing cultural divisions and the buying power of anti-intellectual traditionalists. Writing with verve and deep insight, Brock reaches far beyond typical bromides about media bias to produce an invaluable account of the rise of right-wing media and its political consequences. ... Read more

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It's the Gospel, Baby!
This book did not open my eyes for the first time.What it did do is confirm many of my suspicions. Once upon a time, I used to love watching Hannity and Colms, as well as O'Reilly; I even listened to Limbaugh and loved him. Back to what I was saying. It is frightening how much power the media has over our lives today. Even scarier is that the super rich use that media to--for lack of a better word--brainwash every last one of us into supporting their interests, instead of our own. You don't believe me, there is video footage of the most famous media owner in the world Rupert Murdoch proving most of what this book covers--look it up on youtube. Anyways. Read the book with an open mind then use the scientific method and research what David Brock has written.It's important that everyone does or we will end up a nation with the equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome. Network, Cable and print News are not our friends, none of them are; they are the equivalent of the Fox in the Hen house. Wake up America, we are living in Airstrip One and most of us don't even know it. Lastly, proof that David Brock is honest and right... George W. Bush in 2004 election. Why were people more interested in Michael Jackson's molestation case on the lead up to the election?And why do most people not have a clue about the "Downing Street Memo" an official British document that proves that Bush had his mind made up in 2002, to invade Iraq?Because the media ignored it, media owned and run by Republicans and their Rich conservative buddies.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK TO READ AGAIN, IN THE OBAMA AGE
There was a time in this country when there was no distinction needed between left or right media. There was a time in this country when people were allowed simply to think for themselves. The media was the media. Their objectivity had been a given.

Except for one instance in his long career (when he let slip his opinion about the Vietnam War), the late Mr. Cronkite's reporting was never characterized as "biased." Back then, America hadn't yet been conditioned to be suspicious of media reporting during his time.

After Watergate, especially, everything began to change.

The neocons or "right wing elites", sensing a progressive movement (which was happening organically, globally), organized to discredit media and paint them as "liberal" in order to paint the country as more conservative than it actually was.

Discounting the profession's inherent aspiration to objectivity, they exposed voting habits of media... and used very false methodology to create the illusion that the media was a lot more liberal than the rest of the nation...

... In the end... From the late 1970s, the right wing "elites" were able to toss the media into the "center of political conflict in the US" [The Republican Noise Machine, by David Brock].

It's really sad and pathetic, actually, that media today is nothing more than a place where like-minded people go (left or right) to be told things with which they already know they'll agree.

And the divide grows wider.

It is time to read or re-read this 2004 book by David Brock.

Don't you mean the "Left Wing Media"?
This book is a sham.It is directly focused on the Republican side with no coverage over the Left-wing media--which is everywhere.Did the right-wing media go after Obama's or Clinton's children? Hell no.But did that stop the LEFT-WING MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD from going after Sarah Palin and her children in a most detestable manner? Absolutely not! But, oh yea its us Republicans that are bad--shame, shame.What a joke.What did Hollywood do this last election? They won an election.Now, we have a Socialist President who is destroying the very principles our country was founded on.Anyone who believes that the tactics by the Democrats and their left-wing agenda are just, are just idiots.Note to Hollywood and all you Left-wing Democrats, thanks for your part in the dismantling of the United States, which won't be united much longer!

You'll never see the media the same way again after reading this.
David Brock has written a detailed and brilliant expose of a multi-decade long assault on journalistic ethics and objectivity for political reasons by certain elements of the GOP.Brock is in a position to know (having worked as right-wing hack for decades himself).Brock's writing is direct and his research thorough.He presents his argument relentlessly.He follows the money, names all the names, and reveals his sources.Once you see and understand the way that news reporting is being manipulated in the media you'll never look at the news the same way again.Brock has taught me to recognize the sources and tone of phony manipulated news and now I see it everywhere.I can't recommend this book more highly for any educated person.

Essentially the Republican noise machine was creates as a deliberate strategy to promote conservative views and talking points in the mainstream media (television, newspapers, radio etc...) The strategy features three main strategies: 1) foster the illusion that the mainstream media has a liberal bias, 2) create a phony academic body of entities (primarily think tanks, but also funded university programs) to manufacture "scholarship" that promotes the right-wing talking points so that they appear objective, 3) leverage the perception of liberal bias in the media to demand "equal time" for presentation of the laundered right-wing media talking points as news.

The roots of the right-wing noise machine start back in the days of Goldwater.The civil rights movement succeeded in part because of the public outrage following television news coverage of civil rights protests and backlash.Nixon's new republican coalition of South and West was based in part by frustrated southern racist feeling stymied by a de-facto media position of racial tolerance.Later, the Vietnam war's outcome was partially determined by public protest in the US and the media coverage of the war and the anti-war protests.Brock traces the roots of the strategy for the noise machine in detail - both the writing that defined the strategy and the individuals and entities which funded and created the various organizations that were created to carry out the work.It's not conspiracy theory because the whole thing is mostly out in the open.It's easy to check the facts and I've done so.I'm totally convinced.

The fruits of the right-wing noise machine aren't simply the echo chamber of right wing radio and Fox TV shows that pick up stories and then quote each other to up the air time and give the appearance of validity.It's also been a relentless moving of the main body of mainstream media further to the right.This has led to a host of consequences ranging from millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on right-wing anti-Clinton witch hunts in the Whitewater and Vince Foster cases to the fact that much of the coverage of the Bush administration in the first term and half consisted of basically reprinting the press releases without critical evaluation.Brock gives dozens (perhaps hundreds) of examples.

There are times when the wealth of information in this book get in the way of the narrative.However, this wealth becomes valuable if you choose to really get into it.Brock has built an irrefutable argument.Those who dismiss it are either specifically partisan, or haven't read it.All this data is rigorously end noted.You can chase every bit of it down yourself.Brock's thesis seemed pretty outrageous to me at first - so I double checked him.I found him spot on.That's when I started delving more deeply into what I was reading in the media myself and I started discovering the bias for myself first hand (for example there were allegations in the recent election coverage that Acorn was involved in the explosion of bad debt that caused the recent economic collapse and that Obama was involved in that - reported in the NY Post.It was all specious and it turned out to be sourced from a "consumer group" that had just been created by a man who was on the board of the libertarian Cato Institute.All this isn't in the book - but an example of how this book taught me to think critically and I've been able to independently verify the noise machine's existence and tactics myself).

This is very good stuff indeed.If you want to know Brock's story, I recommend his memoir "Blinded by the Right" which fully details his earlier career writing right wing hit books like "The Real Anita Hill".This book is radically different from that.This is Brock wearing his investigative journalist hat.This book is a synthesis from other sources - there's very little original reporting here.It's a brilliant synthesis that ties it all together.The conclusions sound outrageous (and indeed they are) - but the outrage is real.

Gives right wing way too much credit
There is actually a lot of interesting historical information for the right-of-center reader who wants to learn about the right-wing/Republican successes in bolstering its face time in the American media.

But it's a tough read because Brock is obviously extremely skeptical of pretty much everything that comes out of the mouth of anyone who votes Republican.

Brock hurts his credibility early on when he states flat out that his early conservative writings were actually literary regurgitations of the right wing party line. But what's to keep a reader from viewing this book as just a left-wing version of the same?

I think he could have balanced the book by discussing more specific left-of-center successes. Whenever he does mention the left-wing in the media, it's usually in lofty platitudes about their objectivity and non-partisanship (trust me, Brock really believes this).

He seems to think the left-wing is totally helpless in the face of the right-wing media juggernaut. Does anyone in America actually believe that?

This book has the potential to be an informative read (it's over 400 pages), but it too often lapses into name calling, unsubstantiated generalizations, and conspiratorial excess.

Leave the wild rhetoric to Michael Moore and just give us the facts. ... Read more

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A Companion to the Epic PBS Series

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Wonderful book, but a bit biased
All presidential history buffs need this book.The authors humanized the men, with lots of back stories.They also give alot of space to the wives, after all, behind every great (and not so great) man is a woman!As others have said, the pictures are just wonderful.Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president, and there were new photographs of him, too.The reason I'm giving this only 4 stars is the obvious political bias of the authors. The worse thing they could say about Carter is that he was too detail-oriented, and, of course, Kennedy is treated as a saint.They give very little information about Kennedy's presidency other than a few sentences about the Bay of Pigs and a few paragraphs about the Cuban Missile Crisis. There's no mention of Vietnam at all.Having said all that, I still love this book and refer to it often.

Excellent Introduction To American Presidents
It is a massive task to present all of the presidents (unless we're dealing with a book written in the early 1800's).There are weaknesses inherent in the task -- for example spending equal space for the presidencies of William Harrison (one month) and Franklin Roosevelt (three plus terms), or the issue of bias which like it or not is an issue on any historical undertaking.This book still succeeds in helping you get to know more about each president.

Like the mini-series this is a companion to, this book introduces five major categories, divides each category into two chapters showing the two sides of the category and then place four or five presidents in each.Their objective was to include one early president and one recent president in each group of four (or five), which they basically succeed at:Each of the ten chapters feature one of the ten most recent presidents at the time of this book (2000), and only the chapter on the "compromise candidates" fails to include one of the first ten presidents (it starts with Franklin Pierce, the 14th president).

At the beginning of each chapter is an overview, which points out presidents besides the selected four that fit into the categories.After all, there are often more presidents that fit into a category -- Zachary Taylor could have been in the generals section easily, and the chapter with the most presidents, the accidental presidents, dealt with just over half of the presidents in that category -- as well as presidents that could be in multiple categories.

The biographies spend a lot of time dealing with the life of the president, so you know more about their influences than just what they did in office.As a result, you might get minimal information on the person's actual presidency -- FDR's is a prime example.

If one is trying to decide which one should get between this and the video series, there is no right answer because there are differences.The parts and chapters are in different order.The video has a presidential historian talk about each president, but the book contains written information and quotes of the presidents and glances at the first ladies that are not in the video.

I now feel I know a little about all the presidents we've had.In my case (and a large part thanks to the video series and this book), a lot of my favorite presidents are not the best known ones (in my case, including McKinley, Taft, Arthur, Garfield, Hayes, and Hoover).

Reader Was Disappointing
I found the reader in the CD/cassette versions difficult to listen to.His diction was mushy, almost slurred.Although I have some reservations about the book (such as its unconventional organization, which may be more confusing in the audio format), overall it was interesting and informative.But the reader really detracted from my enjoyment of the book.

AUDIO BOOK:Very good
This is a very well written and well read book on tape.The authors tell you a brief description of each of the American presidents from Washington to Clinton.Because there is a lot of material to cover in four cassette tapes, it is a BRIEF summary of each president's term in office.At the same time, it is a fascinating story that analyzes and draws parallels between presidents who served decades or centuries apart.Instead of going chronologically through each presidency, the authors have broken it down into several chapters.Each chapter has a theme such as accidental presidents - or vice-presidents who became president after an assassination or unexpected death.Then each of the presidents who fit in that category are described in that chapter.It was very easy to follow and very interesting to hear the parallels between presidents so many years apart.Because it is a brief history of each president, you will find many places where you can stop the tape and come back to it again later.It's not an action story though, so it might not keep you awake if you are driving late at night.I mostly listened to it during daylight driving hours when I didn't need the radio to help keep me awake.

A nice history filled with great art and photos
This book is a very nice historical piece for the curious and beginning researcher. It provides enough detail to get one started in a more thorough search of one or more of the men who became president. However, it is not a definitive history text.

The art and photos in this volume are its redeeming quality. One could look through this book for hours and never get bored with the pictures.

The only negative thing that stood out in my mind about this book was the fact that it was not organized in chronological order. In other words, the book does not begin with George Washington and move to each subsequent President. Instead, the book categorizes the presidents into 'types' (for lack of a better word). For example, the sections are titled "The Candidate," or "Executive Vision," or "Happenstance," etc. and a President is categorized into a section. Some of the Presidents often times don't seem to fit the category or type and it makes you wonder what the authors were thinking. Nonetheless, the only time the reader gets a chronological listing of the Presidents is in the back of the book. This, in my estimation was a big mistake.

Otherwise, the book, as a whole, is pretty good and enjoyable to read and merely browse through. ... Read more

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With its barbecues, new Cadillacs, and $4,000 snakeskin cowboy boots, Texas is all about power and money -- and the power that money buys. This detailed and wide-scope account shows how a group of wealthy Texas Republicans quietly hijacked American politics for their own gain.

Getting George W. Bush elected, we learn, was just the tip of the iceberg....

In Follow the Money, award-winning journalist and sixth-generation Texan John Anderson shows how power in Texas has long been vested in the interconnected worlds of Houston's global energy companies, banks, and law firms -- not least among them Baker Botts, the firm controlled by none other than James A. Baker III, the Bush family consigliere. Anderson explains how the Texas political system came to be controlled by a sophisticated, well-funded group of conservative Republicans who, after elevating George W. Bush to the American presidency, went about applying their hardball, high-dollar politicking to Washington, D.C.

When George Bush reached the White House, he brought with him not only members of the Texas legal establishment (among them former White House counsel Harriet Miers and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) but empowered swarms of Republican lobbyists who saw in Bush's arrival a way to make both common cause and big money.

Another important Beltway Texan was Congressman Tom DeLay, the famous "Exterminator" of Houston's Twenty-second District, who became majority leader in 2003 and controlled which bills made it through Congress and which did not. DeLay, in turn, was linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who used his relationships with both DeLay and Karl Rove on behalf of his clients, creating a shockingly corrupt flow of millions of dollars among Republican lobby groups and political action committees. Washington soon became infected by Texas-style politics. Influence-peddling, deal-making, and money-laundering followed -- much of it accomplished in the capital's toniest restaurants or on the fairways and beaches of luxurious resorts, away from the public eye.

The damaging fallout has, one way or another, touched nearly all Americans, Democrat and Republican alike. Follow the Money reveals the hidden web of influence that links George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Texas Republicans to the 2000 recount in Florida; the national tort-reform movement; the controversial late-hour, one-vote passage of the Medicare Reform Act; congressional redistricting schemes; scandals in the energy sector; the destruction of basic constitutional protections; the financial machinery of the Christian right; the manipulation of American-Indian tribe casinos; the Iraq War torture scandals; the crooked management of the Department of the Interior; the composition of the Supreme Court; and the 2007 purges of seasoned prosecutors in the Justice Department.

Some of the actors are in federal prison, others are on their way there, and many more have successfully eluded a day of reckoning.

Told with verve, style, and a not-so-occasional raised eyebrow, Anderson's account arcs directly into tomorrow's headlines. Startling in its revelations, Follow the Money is sure to spark controversy and much-needed debate concerning which direction this country goes next. ... Read more

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Hamsters eat their young
If by some huge miracle people started seeing people from the inside out, perhaps there would be less confusion as to who is who and what is what .Normal to me is G-d, Country and Family, ... Normal for the Demigods in this book are: Greed, Idolising and Adultery, they are NOT who they say they are, they are false prophets andactually undermine our National security. This book has a rushed, if not lacking in some critical ingredient feel , it simply has too narrow of a focus (Just the facts, Mam). Middle class politicians, Democrat or Republican don't exist, when ANY person is given too muchpower and responsibility they usually end up on the dark road of entitlement, making this book's point moot. This is a systemic reality, therefore we are the problem, until you get hit on the head with a bat (metaphor) and then it's too late !. Try to read: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else.

History as it is...
From the beginning, where Anderson announces that to understand present American politics, one must grasp that Texas is a third world country whose capitol is Houston, he grabs the reader's attention and doesn't let it go. (Not only is Texas a 'third world country,' but Bush et al. have tried to run the US the same way... and were successful for several years.) _Follow_ tracks several characters (DeLay, Bush, Abramoff) through a twisting maze of money laundering, fraud, and crooked politics.

Much of the book focuses on the Delay/Abramoff scandal, though he outlines clear ties between Abramoff and Karl Rove. (eg. Rove's personal assistant is Abramoff's former personal assistant.)

If you're not the sort of person who reads the news, this is not the book for you. If,on the other hand, you wish to know just how the American government was stolen by politicians more familiar with the Banana Republic known as Texas (and how it all fell apart...), buy this book.

It's a Long, Dirty Trail!
"Follow the Money" begins in Houston, a city 62% minority, one of the most ozone-polluted areas in the country, and the largest city in the U.S. without zoning regulations.In 1994, top Texas officials were all Democrats, as was the majority of its House and Senate, and its Congressmen in Washington.The only exception was its two national Senators - both Republicans.George W. Bush won the Governor's seat in 1994, beating incumbent Ann Richards with 53% of the vote.(The author suspects that Rush Limbaugh's popularity in the state was a factor.)

After a brief introduction to James Baker (major player in the Bush I administration, and architect of Bush II's Florida win), the scene shifts inexplicably to Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, and Karl Rove.It's on to Abramoff's first clients (Marianas Islands - fighting to retain their exemption from U.S. labor laws, and a Mississippi Indian tribe trying to prevent new competition in nearby Alabama), DeLay's creation of the K-Street Project and relief for corporations from taxation and regulation.

Abramoff goes on to create a number of false front organizations to launder his fees and donations, double-cross one Indian tribe client (also worked for their competitor against them), made numerous contacts with Karl Rove and the White House (learned despite use of Republican National Committee e-mails to elude retention requirement), etc.

A well-detailed and sordid history of recent American politics.

All Hail the Mighty State!
"Follow the Money" is, as John Anderson writes, a "first pass at history," an effort to chronicle a "vast web of intrigue."He might well have said a vast web of corruption, as intricate as a Mark Lombardi diagram, for that is the book's subject -- the barely concealed but highly complex efforts of Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, and a host of others, most with close ties to Texas, in their bald pursuit of money and power.Abramoff's story is particularly appalling -- for example, Anderson explains how Abramoff manipulated the anti-gambling Christian right in the service of his pro-gambling Native American clients who wished to crush competing tribes in nearby states, and then turned around to represent those same competing tribes in their efforts to legalize gambling -- but it is only one strand in Anderson's fascinating story.

Anderson's account is thoroughly documented and fair minded, acknowledging honesty and integrity on either side of the aisle whenever it presents itself.Witness the examples of Paul O'Neill, James Comey, and even John Ashcroft, all of whom come out quite well in Anderson's account.

Although George W. Bush is certainly an actor in this tale, his relative absence, compared to others, is telling in and of itself.Bush is not a prime mover in his own universe.That role falls to others, such as Dick Cheney and Karl Rove (yet another Texan).

Anderson's story, exposing the naked power grab of the Republicans in Washington, D.C. (and particularly in Congress), as well as in Texas, is a shocker.We can only hope the Democrats in Congress, and perhaps soon the White House, do a better job. ... Read more

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“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”

In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign policy issue, from the fight against Communism at home and abroad, the Nixon and the Clinton presidencies, and the struggle with the Soviet empire right up to today’s war on terrorism. “Liberals have a preternatural gift for always striking a position on the side of treason,” says Coulter. “Everyone says liberals love America, too. No, they don’t.” From Truman to Kennedy to Carter to Clinton, America has contained, appeased, and retreated, often sacrificing America’s best interests and security. With the fate of the world in the balance, liberals should leave the defense of the nation to conservatives.

Reexamining the sixty-year history of the Cold War and beyond—including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers–Alger Hiss affair, Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” the Gulf War, and our present war on terrorism—Coulter reveals how liberals have been horribly wrong in all their political analyses and policy prescriptions. McCarthy, exonerated by the Venona Papers if not before, was basically right about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government. Hiss turned out to be a high-ranking Soviet spy (who consulted Roosevelt at Yalta). Reagan, ridiculed throughout his presidency, ended up winning the Cold War. And George W. Bush, also an object of ridicule, has performed exceptionally in responding to America’s newest threats at home and abroad.

Coulter, who in Slander exposed a liberal bias in today’s media, also examines how history, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century, has been written by liberals and, therefore, distorted by their perspective. Far from being irrelevant today, her clearheaded and piercing view of what we’ve been through informs us perfectly for challenges today and in the future.

With Slander, Ann Coulter became the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual of the year. Treason, in many ways an even more controversial and prescient book, will ignite impassioned political debate at one of the most crucial moments in our history.


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Another winner!
Ann has outdone herself with this book. WOW....this should be required reading in every school system in the USA as well as Congress.Because of this book, I purchased the Venona Project.SCARY!!!The lies and propoganda that we've been fed all these years about Sen. McCarthy certainly has done this man a grave injustice.Too bad he isn't around for some of us to say "Thank you, Joe."He literally saved our nation from a communist take-over.We could do with a few more McCarthys today.

Blood on Their Hands...
This is an excellent, well-documented book.Ms. Coulter has used many primary sources to document the sad and sordid tale of American liberalism's complicency in Communism.
It's all here: from Franklin Roosevelt's twice-fold dismissal of concerns over Soviet spy Alger Hiss, to Harry Truman's refusal to listen to evidence against Soviet spy Harry Dexter White, to the useless idiots who smeared Senator Joseph McCarthy when they knew full well that McCarthy had pulled in more than his full shareof Communists working in the US government:Ms. Coulter lays it all out.
If you are a liberal, and an intellectually honest person, you will not be able to read this book,love your country, and vote Democratic ever again.Something's gonna have to give.
The blood of miliions is on the hands of FDR, Truman, Dean Acheson (who passed government evidence along to Alger Hiss' defense team) and all the intellectual snobs who turned their noses up at Joe McCarthy.Remember the great scene in which the self-righteous Mr. Welch blasts Joe with his "have you no sense of decency" speech?Does anyone know what that was all about?Well, you can read all about it here: the true story.Turns out that Mr. Welch was baiting Roy Cohn to come up with the names of some Communists, baiting himover and over again while the liberal press snickered.And finally, Joe had had enough: Mr. Welch had a Communist working for him.McCarthy was ever reluctant to name names in publis, but this time he did.And to mask the fact that his bluff had been called, Mr. Welch resorted to theatrics.It truned out that McCarthy was right after all, but by then the press was so biased that noone cared to report it correctly.
Ms. Coulter (and the great Stan Evans in his majestic book on McCarthy), sets the record straight.

Liberal Foreign Policy 101
Ann Coulter has done it again. Her latest book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror has spent several months on the New York Times Bestseller list. The title earned every second of it with a dazzling blend of historical fact, snappy humor, and sarcastic wit. Her main point echoes throughout the 292 pages that, "liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason."
Pound for pound, Coulter is easily the most potent weapon of the right against liberal indoctrination that has here to for withstood any erosion. The constitutional lawyer makes the point that more docile conservatives have avoided: liberals are not patriotic. Clarification: liberals who incessantly bash America are not patriotic.
Ever since 9.11 we were forced to suffer liberal diatribes about how the United States was bullying hapless, desperate nations, and how we should get approval from France before taking military action, and about how John Ashcroft was bent on sifting through grandma's underwear drawer and library records, and how normal Americans were Nazis for not buying more Dixie Chicks albums, and how the problems in the Middle East were our fault for driving SUVs, and on, and on, and on...
After all this vitriol against America, we were supposed to believe them that it was somehow not unpatriotic to criticize ad nauseam your country and its leaders. Even though Webster defines "patriotism" as "devoted love, support, and defense of one's country," we were supposed to thankfully venerate the paragons of national loyalty: Janeane Garafolo, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, et al, when they went abroad to sideswipe our president, our national policy, our stupid electorate, the fact that we are the most prosperous nation, etc. But even liberals realized that to be labeled unpatriotic was not appealing in wartime.
Coulter explains how the liberal charade began much earlier than the War on Terror. The quasi-hero of her book is Senator Joseph McCarthy, whom she defends as a courageous American who exposed communist infiltration in the top reaches of government. Liberals were happy to harbor communists in the State Department, Pentagon, and Army who were security risks at the least, and paid KGB agents at worst.
Coulter explains how the left combated the assault on their treachery by making McCarthy, and not communist infiltration, the story. Now when you read about American communism, McCarthy is portrayed as a paranoid lunatic who deliberately ruined innocent people's lives for a few moments in the spotlight, and "McCarthyism has become a useful label to shut anybody up who called into question liberals' patriotism. Thus, Coulter uncovers what the establishment media omits, tracing what McCarthy was actually up to. Her reliance on history is a patient exercise in patriotism. She cites information from the Venona Project, a cache of Soviet cables that had been decoded during the Cold War, declassified in 1995. Coulter writes:
"Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an authentic Communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had unpardonably connived with one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century. This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to rewriting history and blackening reputations."
Another highlight of the book is her exhaustive explanation of Ronald Reagan's masterly direction of American foreign policy vis à vis world communism. Chapter 8 is sarcastically entitled, "How Truman Won The Cold Ward During The Reagan Administration." Reagan falls in the McCarthy mold, in that he almost single-handedly brought down the Soviet Empire, only to be belittled and marginalized by liberal educators eager to mitigate their idiotic prognostications during the eighties. For instance, Coulter points out that liberals called Reagan foolish for challenging such a robust Soviet Union when he assumed power in 1981, but by the end of the decade they had changed their tune to, "the Soviets were in decline anyway."
It is also interesting to realize the freshness of Reagan's attitude toward the Russians. He abandoned "parity" and "détente" that his predecessors strove for. He wanted the end of soviet communism, and his critics believed him mad when he confidently halted arms talks in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986. Reagan would not compromise with communists. Although he made history by engaging the Soviet Premier in arms-reduction summits, he would not abandon the United States' prerogative for missile defense (Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI, otherwise known as "Star Wars"). We all know what happened next. Coulter writes:
"Reagan had spent six years bleeding the Soviet Union from every limb. By walking away from the table at Reykjavik rather than abandon SDI, Reagan consigned the USSR to the dustbin of history. His victory over the evil empire was complete. The rest was paperwork...To be sure, refusing to compromise on Star Wars, Reagan had abandoned any hope of ever winning a Nobel Peace Prize. It must have provided some consolation to know that he had forever destroyed the Soviet war machine on behalf of the free world."
Amazingly, Coulter asserts, liberals still disdain a missile defense system. It must be the association it has with the Gipper, whom they loathe because of his hard-line stance against the communists.
Of course, no book with the subtitle, "Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism" would be complete without ample treatment on Mr. Bush's war. Coulter skillfully and comically exposes liberal hypocrisy throughout the War on Terrorism. Her polemic is hard-hitting as well as side-splitting. Explaining the democrats' obsession with European endorsement of U.S. military action, for instance, she writes, "democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look themselves in the mirror." Continuing in the same vein, she shows how ridiculous it is for liberal pundits to worry about our enemies' disposition.
"One could mine every war-making text throughout history--Sun Tsu, Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred Thayer Mahan--without finding a single reference to being liked by your enemies as a tactic associated with winning a war...They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die... So sorry they're angry--wait until they see American anger."
Coulter is on a crusade to show how liberalism is not patriotic. From WWII, to The War on Terrorism, with everything in between--Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, Grenada, Iran, Somalia, Indochina, Lybia, Central America, and North Korea, Coulter describes the democratic tendency to commit treason, be it overt or de facto. They do not like what America stands for. Treason is a valuable and fun instructional tool, as well as being the antidote to the poisonous mentality that loses wars and surrenders freedom--a must read.

McCarthy was Right!
Ann Coulter writes that "Liberals unreservedly call all conservatives fascists, racists, and enemies of civil liberties with no facts whatsoever." (They) "attack their country and then go into a diarrhea panic if anyone criticizes them" (p. 6).Interesting facts: SDS radical leader, Tom Hayden became a Democrat State Senator in California; Black Panther's Bobby Rush became a Democratic congressman (p. 12). History Lessons:In 1938, Whittaker Chambers defected from the communist party due to his realization that they stood for terror, torture, fascism, and death (p. 18). Chambers provided significant information on the Communist spy network in to include two dozen spies in the Roosevelt administration including Alger Hiss (p. 18). Coulter describes the "Pumpkin Papers" that proved Hiss' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Nearly 100 million were murdered in the name of Communism, surpassing Nazi brutality (p. 34).

She provides eye opening details on how the "Roosevelt administration was teeming with paid agents of Moscow" (p. 37). Spies have been proven through declassified Soviet cables to include:Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Laurence Duggan, Frank Coe, Solomon Adler, Klaus Fuchs, Duncan Lee (p. 44) and were confirmed by ex-spies Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. Declassified Soviet cables also proved indisputably that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, and Judith Coplon were spies, who provided classified data to the Soviets (p. 50).Coulter builds the case that McCarthy's fundamental thesis was correct:"The Democratic Party had fallen to the allures of totalitarianism" ... and that FDR was infatuated with Mussolini(p. 71). Coulter states that liberals decried the evils of McCarthyism, creating a false belief that Senator McCarthy caused Hollywood blacklisting even though there was absolutely no relationship (p. 76). Yet, liberals chose to ignore that "Stalin executed, starved, exiled or imprisoned more than ten million people" (p. 79).She discusses George Marshal, Owen Lattimore and Henry Wallace ... concluding that "the result of being called a Communist by McCarthy was you got to teach at Harvard" (p. 92). She also discusses I.F. Stone who was later proven to be a paid Soviet agent (p. 97). Despite press misrepresentation that McCarthy was unpopular, the majority of Americans were pro-McCarthy as were John and Bobby Kennedy (p. 101), and that the "primary victim of outrageous persecution during the McCarthy era was McCarthy, (p.104) who suffered attacks by the leftist-press for over four years.

Coulter discusses numerous foreign affairs failures to include Bay of Pigs (JFK), Berlin Wall (JFK), Cuban Missile Crisis (JFK), Viet Nam (JFK, LBJ), Iranian Hostage Crisis (Carter), Beirut (Reagan/Democrat Congress), and Somalia (Clinton) concluding that "whenever Democrats dabble in military affairs, America suffers relentless defeats, ...and the nation is demoralized and humiliated" (p. 144). Coulter identifies that President Truman thought "Stalin was a fine man" and that Russians "have always been our friends" (p. 148) showing he was either naïve or intentionally soft on communism and like FDR, Truman refused to remove "members of his administration identified to him by J. Edgar Hoover and others as Communist agents" (p. 154).Also, a very interesting discussion of terrorists: Jose Padilla, John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid, as well as John Lee Malvo and John Allen Williams (who was a member of the Nation of Islam).After a few more enlightening chapters of detailed fact-laden information, the author concludes that conservatives are God-fearing; whereas Liberals pray to the infallible state ... believing that they are God.

Even if you do not agree with Ann Coulter's politics, the historical research on Alger Hiss and other post-WWII spies is well worth the price of this book.

Dr. B. Leland Baker, author of Tea Party Revival
Tea Party Revival: The Conscience of a Conservative Reborn:The Tea Party Revolt Against Unconstrained Spending and Growth of the Federal Government

ann coulter gets it right!
Ann succinctly puts the blame where it rightfully belongs.
The Venona Papers prove that there were communists in FDR's cabinet and serving as aides to FDR. McCarthy knew it and was excoriated for that knowledge. He tried his best to tell the people, many of whom had lived through the war and it's aftermath. They were smarter than their duly elected officials, and Joe McCarthy was a hero to the common person.

Go Ann. All your books are good,this one really struck a chord. Thanks. ... Read more

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day after election-wrong as usual
Cavelle is always positive he knows what is going on.Another reason to never pay attention to him.

This book is 110% inaccurate
We see in the Scott Brown, Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell elections, as well as all polling for the midterm elections, that the Demoncrats are going to be trounced. So Carville thought he will have the next 20 rounds of elections in the bag and the Demoncats are facing a knockout in round one. If you want to buy a tissue paper, this book is a bad choice because it is quite rough and will hurt you. I would recommend Charmin. It is very soft and a great product.

I have to admit though, I haven't bothered to read this trash.

And for Carville's next work of Genius ...
"Dynasty:How the L.A. Clippers Will Rule the NBA for the Next 10 Years."

40 More?! They won't even surivive well past 4! The Cajun Serpent Speaks Stupidly- again!
Well, it's July 2010, and the polls show the Democrats & Obama tanking quite well, and heading for November problems.
I DO reckon they have tried to pile drive through their agenda that the majority of voters don't want in a number of examples.
This is one independent/unaffiliated voter who went from voting for Democrats since 1992 with no GOPers getting my vote (except for my state senator) to voting for all GOPers when I can.
I went from a left-leaning moderate to a conservative-leaning moderate and now a moderately conservative independent.
The only bit of respect I have for Carville is when he put his state above his party and Obama and scowled and blasted Obama for his poor response to the worse environmental disaster in our history. Obama, BTW, also rejected almost all of the countries that offered to help - including Holland (who should know how to help in the water issue).
They may or may not lose control of one or both houses of Congress, but with only 20% as liberal or very liberal, 41/42% conservative/very conservative, and 36% (or more)moderate, the liberals and Far Left is out of step with the country.
40 more years? Nope.
Not even past 2010!
Let's get a whole bunch of new pmen and women in Congress, with the best of the rest, and stop this liberal insanity (The minority of good things does not justify the huge amount of rotten fruit of Dem-controlled Congress & White House).

Entertaining, but not great
40 More Years was an entertaining read.Carville brings up many good points about the Bush administration as well as convincing arguments and evidence regarding the Democrats' better positions on the economy.Though the book has some compelling arguments and is funny at parts, it is disorganized and has some chapters that don't really seem to have a purpose in the book.Carville's writing style makes his arguments seem more like angry rants, and though entertaining, this can get kind of annoying.Also, now that it is much further along in Obama's presidency, it is obvious how uncertain the Democrats' rule is, seeing as how many think he could be a one term president.Overall I would say it's an easy and fun read, but the predictions can't be taken too seriously. ... Read more

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In their new book, Unfit For Command, O'Neill and coauthor Jerome Corsi bring together the words of more than two hundred Navy veterans who served with Kerry and who feel in their duty to tell why John Kerry is unworthy of presidency.Amazon.com Review
Due to the timing of its publication, Unfit for Command could be dismissed as the sort of controversial, loaded book typical in a presidential election year: Either courageous and necessary, or untruthful and malicious, depending on one's political point of view. Filled with interviews of men who served in Vietnam at the same time as John Kerry, the book poses the following question: "Why do an overwhelming majority of those who commanded or served with John Kerry oppose him?" (Note that the issue of "service" has sparked investigation into its definition--in other words, just how close was the interaction between Kerry and those cited in the book during Kerry’s Vietnam tour of duty?)

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The Book That Killed the Kerry Presidential Campaign
This book is a must own for any serious history buff. Whether Republican or Democrat this book exposes the very fact that John Kerry's own troops that he commanded in the Navy did not trust him. This fact added to his constant flip flopping on many key issues killed his chances to be president.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Was Olivera your imaginary friend?
The whole reason by Swift boat veterans were against Kerry. Kerry has a totally lame conversation with Olivera.

First of all Olivera would have totally lampooned you much more than you reconned. I think it was unlikely that you just minimized the humiliation because it sounded totally contrived.

While it would have been possible for Olivera to make an exception and train a SWCC team because you're a Senators son, I think you were totally lame in saying that 'wait for us to inflate our boats'.

Olivera liked to be humored as any one. Why are all the books looking down on Olivera like some squaw and then the same people try to get his adulation. This is the man who wore a sweatshirt 'god' emblazoned on it. This is a man not understood by this group with its own video game, created the Simpsons. Eat my shorts. Imperial Beach, Evergreen Terrace is the street where a Captain lives with a greasy floor and rapidly aging fruit as some sort of omen. More Americans know the Simpsons address than the WhiteHouse. Olivera got me 007 in my social security number.

Eye Opening Book.
This is a very informative and eye opening book, book is basically how John Kerry was/is a person you could not trust when it comes to major issues. He served briefly, lied to obtain purple hearts. and came to the states talking about being against the war, and saying he was forced to do bad things when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

THE TRUTH ABOUT "SWIFTBOATING"
THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY FROM THE "REAL" SWIFT BOAT DRIVERS, WHO WERE THE REAL HEROS OF THE VIETNAM WAR. THEY KNEW THE "REAL" JOHN F KERRY, THE PAPER HERO ... AND THEY ROSE UP OUT OF THE PAST TO PROTEST, IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS, THE POSSIBILITY THAT THIS FRAUDULENT HERO, KERRY, MIGHT POSSIBLY BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE LIBERAL PRESS TRIED THEIR DAMNDEST TO BURY THESE BRAVE MEN'S TESTIMONY, CASTING THEM AS SPOILERS, BROUGHT OUT BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, TO BESMIRCH kERRY'S "CHARACTER." HOWEVER, KERRY DID THAT ALL BY HIMSELF, MANUFACTURING THREE PURPLE HEARTS, A BOGUS SILVER STAR (CONSPICUOUS ACT OF HEROISM), A BRONZE STAR WITH FOUR OAK LEAF CLUSTERS (FIVE ACTS OF CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY) ... IN JUST THREE MONTHS ON THE RIVER. HE USED THE THREE BOGUS HEARTS TO BAIL OUT OF VIETNAM, WITH ALL HIS FILMED HEROISM (TAKEN BY THE CREW HE HAD BROUGHT TO VIETNAM, TO DOCUMENT HIS DAILY ACTS OF BRAVERY) ... WITH WHICH TO PURSUE A CAREER IN POLITICS ... JUST LIKE HIS HERO BEFORE HIM .. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM, HOWEVER WAS ... THAT KENNEDY REALLY EARNED HIS HEROISM AND MEDALS. SO MUCH FOR "SWIFT BOATING!" RICHARD FREDRICKS

Could I give it a ZERO?
This is not a piece of well-research journalism.It is a polemic against an honorable man by those who have to destroy anyone they disagree with.

This book should never have been published.The main facts are three:
1.The man Kerry rescued, a life-long Republican, says Kerry is a hero.
2.Kerry went to war while Bush played.
3.Look what Bush has done to our wonderful nation in the 8 years he's been in.ANYONE could have done a better job.Kerry would have been a much better president.He would have worked for alternative fuel instead of being owned by the oil companies, he would have been resonsible with the lives of our military.

Anyone who believes this deserved Bush.I don't believe it--and I got Bush anyway. ... Read more

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Half of all illegal immigrants came into this country legally--and we have no way of knowing they're still here!

Congressmen are putting their wives on their campaign payrolls--so that campaign contributions are really personal bribes!

The ACLU won't allow its own directors free speech.

Liberals want to strip us of the tools to stop terrorism.

The UN is a cover for massive corruption--and eighty countries, who pay 12 percent of the budget, are blocking reform.

Drug companies pay off doctors to write scripts--whether we need them or not.

Teachers unions block the firing of bad teachers--and battle against higher education standards!

Katrina victims are being stiffed by their insurance companies!

Special interests cost our consumers $45 billion--through trade quotas that save only a handful of jobs!

Never heard of these abuses? You won't in the mainstream media. That's why Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote Outrage. Their proposals:

• Ban immigration from terrorist countries
• Ban Congress putting spouses on their payroll
• Ban lobbyists who are related to senators or congressmen
• Ban nicotine additives to cigarettes
• Ban trade quotas that drive up prices and save few jobs
• Ban drug company bribes to doctors
• Ban teachers unions' work rules that stop education reform
• Ban insurance companies from backing out on Katrina coverage

In Outrage, you'll get the facts--and learn what we can do about them. You won't read about these outrages anyplace else; too many people are working hard to cover them up. Get them here instead--and learn how to fight the special interests of the left and right. ... Read more

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Dry book
Great informational book but the writing is dry. Hard to keep reading without having to put it down to come back for another try.

Don't bother reading
I'm glad I only paid $5 for this book and even that was probably too much.This book was not only boring but uninformative.Statistics are presented and the author wants to make a whole argument based on a few set of facts.The author tries to highlight the fact that not only facts are presented but also suggestions on how to deal with the problems are made.The suggestions are utterly worthless and unrealistic.I think this guy believes the United States functions in a vacuum.

Don't bother wasting your time on this book.I think a twelve year-old could have provided better alternatives in dealing with the situations presented in the book.

Not for the feint of heart or politically correct
Synopsis

We live in a time in American history when our moral values, our convictions, and the safety of our nation is threatened by the law of the politically correct. Everything you see on the news, read in the newspaper and hear on the radio has been filtered in some form or fashion by the "PC" sieve. That is what makes a book like Outrage stand out like a pink elephant at a cocktail party.

Critics have labeled the book a "rant," and for the most part, it is - at least that's the way you would feel if you hold the PC ideology near and dear. The subject of the book is U.S. politics and in it Morris presents a long list of topics sure to touch a nerve and stir a sense of, well, outrage.

The list includes:

*Immigration - the borders are not the primary problem, it is an accountability issue
*The United Nations - a worldwide scandal ignored
*The ACLU - American hypocrisy personified
*The U.S. Congress - we pay, they play
*The Patriot Act - PC vs. Common Sense
*Teachers Unions - Bad teachers getting paid to stay home vs. merit pay for performance
*Pharmaceutical Companies - profits over public health
*Fannie Mae - the Democratic Enron
*The bankruptcy bill - not what it used to be
*Government student loans - robbery without limits
*Insurance scams - the media left town when the floods receded - A little help here?!?
*Tobacco Companies - 21st century shell game
*Crooked politicians - American friends or foes?
*Trade Protection and Special Interests - the public is not smart enough to notice . . .
Morris names the crooks, both Democrat and Republican, and lets the heads fall where they may.


My Two Cents Worth


Dick Morris is not the kind of guy you want living next door. He has a VERY large list of VERY powerful people who would probably prefer that he would quietly just go away.

As a former advisor to Bill Clinton for 20 years, Dick made a living of irritating conservatives. After a public shunning from the Clinton administration, he has turned his attention to irritating the other half of the political nation, the liberals, with equal success. He has remarkable audacity, leading one to believe he must also have a remarkable security detail following him 24/7.

Dick doesn't simply expose the corruption, he names names. Lots of names. Regardless of your political persuasion, he makes you mad. He makes you want to look up the phone number or email address or your congressman or senator and do a little venting of your own.

The thing that keeps this book from being just another political "rant" is the way Morris offers plausible and common sense solutions to each of the atrocities he mentions. Whether his proposed solutions would actually work is subject to debate, but at face value they make sense. That is more than you can say for the convoluted and frustrating solutions we have recently witnessed in the congressional "bailout" legislation.

I am not a big fan of Mr. Morris when he spars with Bill O'Reilly of FOX News fame, but you have to admire his perspective. After all, I have yet to hear any of the people named in this book mount a serious rebuttal to his claims.

I liked the book and I found it refreshing to read copy that isn't at all concerned about being politically correct. Call a liar a liar and a crook a crook - if you are wrong, you will most certainly be contacted by an attorney. I particularly liked the Notes section that corresponds with the chapters of the book as a sort of bibliography. It's almost 50 pages in length and adds to the credibility of the copy.

I can't wait to share this with some selected friends.


Hardback, 303 pages, 2 1/2 hours

Extremely Informative and Interesting Book
Dick Morris may have worked for Bill Clinton but his books BASH both Democrats and Republicans for porking out and having so many scams and underhanded trickery to partake in taxpayers' money.His chapter on immigration and unions have come true.They are getting "paid back" now by the Democrats for pouring the money into the party at the expense of American national interests. I enjoyed this book and seeing Dick Morris on television and I signed up for his emails which are extremely informative.Dick Morris is a true American for telling the truth on the corruption in Washington.

I am currently reading Fleeced and it is as mind blowing as Outrage.

Outrage
Dick Morris and his wife by the way are among my favorite authors. I am going to make it a priority to do the steps he suggests to help stop the ripping off of Americans. I hope others read it and do the same. It's like we just can't stop our government from spending our money unless we vote them out and it seems as though party politics is more important than stopping them from stealing our money. I guess it'll take 50,60 or 70 percent tax to finally make them figure it out. The rich and if I were among them, me too, are going to find a way of living some where else yet still have life, liberty, ownership and the pursuit of happiness as benefits. Maybe buying their own island and establishing a New America. Sounds like a new book. Someone should investigate and write. Is it possible? If so maybe I would move there and help defend it.... ... Read more

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• The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen . . .
• Our great economic expansion is unraveling faster than a set of Firestones . . .
• Our water is poisoned, the ozone's in shreds, and the SUVs are advancing like a plague of locusts . . .

The polls indicate that 60 percent of Americans are "upset or angry" about this land in which we now live -- a land where crooked courts select the president and money rules the day. So if you're feeling the same way and you're wondering what's going to give out first -- the economy, Dick Cheney's pacemaker, or your new VW Beetle -- here's the book for you.Amazon.com Review
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops." Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's nonviolent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo ... Read more

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came on time, as described
my book came in good time & in the condition described by seller. i would definitely order from this seller again.

Ten years on....
"Stupid White Men: ...and other sorry excuses for the State of the Nation!" by Michael Moore is an interesting book.This book is more about what was/is wrong with our country and how both parties are guilty of causing it.It is also a call to take back our country one step at a time.This book was written pre 9/11.

Michael Moore throughout this book takes the time to disprove some of the myths some of us live with and possibly believe.He pulls no punches he points out the problems with both the Republicans and Democrats and shows the Clinton's actions were not that much different then George W. (see pgs. 209-228, Democrats DOA).

Even though it was written almost 10 years ago it still has a lot to say to both the right and the left the Democrats, the Republicans, the Independents, and the Tea baggers.I would highly recommend reading this book.

Great!
Thanks Mr. Moore! See also George and Condi: The Last Decayed: A Collection of Poems from the Last Decade Beaver Tales and a Canada Goosing: Poems Illustrating a Uniquely Canadian Perspective (See ArtisanPacificPublishing Website).

Micheal Moore is a Good, Cool, Smart, Caring, White, Dude
I just read this book in 2010, after some important moments have long past, but it still has some relevance to the present and makes a good historical reference of late 90s to 2001 before 9/11. A very informative book I must say.

I agree with most of what Mike says. Bush did scam himself into office. That the US is an idiot nation, demonstrated by people voting for bush in 2004 after scamming himself into office, unable to connect the dots to 9/11, and starting a revenge war in Iraq on fictitious WMDs. That African Americans are pretended to be doing fine is also true. I believe in his assessment about Russia, that many Democrats are similar to Republicans, and other facts.

I don't agree with Mike on a few issues and I'm white. If recycling is a scam I believe it's no reason not to separate the plastic, glass and what not since recycling can only get done if all parties do their part, so just because one group may not be doing it's part does not mean that we all should give up, but does mean that something needs to be done to get these non compliant groups to get with the program. I don't believe that switching to bottle water, because tap water has some contaminants, is good (the plastic is not environmentally friendly) and I'm sure that bottled water is also contaminated if tap water already is. I don't believe that more women being born than men is nature's way of eliminating men. Some can even argue that it is nature's way of increasing the human population (polygamy for example).

I'm mixed with Mike about beef and Bill Clinton. It's good to give up on beef (cattle farming is not environmentally friendly) as he has done, but I don't believe in his reasons for it, though it doesn't matter as the ends are just. I'm not sure about all his assessments about Bill Clinton. He tried to pass some health care reform for example. I agree though that Clinton also did many bad things. I'm happy that Hilary did not become president.

The book cites many references, so you know Mike is not making up stuff as the conservative critics claim, so there is no need to read "Michael Moore Is a Stupid Fat White Man", unless you are a conservative.

Has anyone caught the unintentional irony?
I'm sure Micheal Moor did not think this one through:He is on the cover of a book entitled "Stupid White Men". How appropriate! Of stupid white men, he is their Grand Poobah!

When God was handing out brains in Heaven, Michael thought He said "trains" and stepped aside!

I can't wait for the overdue and deserved death of Liberalism/atheism/communism, and this book will be one more giant step toward the cemetary.

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America’s bravest voice is back with a third dose of his bitter medicine—this time with the remedy to heal America’s liberal maladies. In his first two books, radio sensation Michael Savage offered a blistering attack on the erosion of America’s values. Now, in the third installment of his bold and biting trilogy, he offers provocative yet practical ways to reclaim our social, political, and cultural integrity. Through a compelling narative of current trends and events, Savage chronicles the continued assault on the sacred pillars of American life (the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Sanctity of Marriage) by the High Priests of Ultra-Liberalism and provides the remedy for freedom-loving Americans to effectively medicate the mental disease of modern liberalism and restore America’s former brilliance. In each chapter, the Savage Spotlight of Truth casts its brilliant light on the tactics used by liberals to spread their leftist agenda and follow it with a dose of specific actions, arguments, and activism that the listener can ingest to counter the left. After all, as Savage said in The Savage Nation, America’s best days are in front of her, if we have the guts to face the truth and apply ourselves to repairing the foundation upon which this blessed nation was formed. ... Read more

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Great read.
This is one of Savage's best books. He nails it on many different levels, while keeping the flow and direction simple and easily delivered. Dr. Savage's books should be required reading for those that wish to understand conservatism.

Decent
Pretty good book. The only problem I have with it is it's 8 or so years old. Michael Savage rips up Bush's policies but Bush is no longer relavent anyway. Anyone thinking about purchasing this book should consider getting a newer one instead.

Well-written, concise explanation of the problems with liberalism
He's a biting as Ann Coulter, but his books are much easier to read. Instead of ploughing through rambling diatribes, Savage goes right to the point. He makes a point, and does it well! Savage wants to warn us that Islamofascists are a major threat to our security. He knows 9/11 was the big hit, but he goes through some minor ones, like the hijacking of cruise ship Achille Lauro in the mid-1980s. (An American Jewish man was murdered and thrown out to sea.) He'll tell you about the tragedies in Israel, Munich, and Spain. He's not happy with Bush, and he'll tell you why. I highly recommend reading this book to remind you of the threats facing America.

If this book offends you, you have a mental disorder
This book is way ahead of its time and is actually more relevant under our current communist, marxist, socialist, progressive Obama/Demoncrap controlled tyranical government. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder and is the human mind, as if liberals actually have one, that cannot accept or deal with reality and doesnt have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. The liberal mind only works on propaganda from the DNC, the major media outlets or more appropriately propaganda networks and just about anything Obama, Gore, Moorer and all the other mentally defected human debris spew out of their mouths. Liberalism is the death of America and the constitution if not immediatly corrected. It is also the making wrong right and right wrong, for example letting a terrorist sympathising Imam put a "cordoba project" or victory mosque at ground zero where Islamo terrorists murdered and tortured innocent Americans. And yes TORTURED, just think about the state of mind of the innocent people who were forced to either burn to death or leap 110 stories to their death, the normal mind knows that is torture the liberal mind is offended by this remark and the Demoncrap mind will try and scrub this or make it disappear, just like they did with 9/11/01 immages on TV. Yup they bannded togeather to protect us from those horrific images, LMAO yeah more like out of sight out of mind. Anyway read this great book as well as Michael Savages other books and get an education or at least get your mind thinking about our current oppressive state of events.

The truth about liberals' mind set
Dr. Savage explains why liberals are really mentally ill and misguided. I love this book because it goes beyond name calling to explain why liberals really are sick mentally. ... Read more

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Scary thoughts
I bought this book because I thought David Frum was the only conservative thinker willing to criticize the Republican party, and do it in a constructive fashion.

And, true, he does exactly that.

However, he drops some scary thoughts along the way that I find appalling.

In chapter five, Keep China Number Two, he offers ways to improve America's economic standing in the world and to keep China from reaching number one economic status.

How does he propose we do that? By ending affirmative action, kicking out undocumented workers, and "supporting larger families." Yes, America's standing in the world would be so much higher if we just kick Blacks and Hispanics out of the school system and spend our time educating Whites and Asians. There, problem solved.

Frum, like so many conservatives, cares only for the movement. People who do not think like them are a hindrance that must be cast aside. When Frum talks about people suffering, rest assured he is talking about White people suffering.

Yet, ironically, Frum suffered at the hands of the same movement he claims to be a part of. He has been ostracized by conservatives for daring to suggest that they work with Democrats on solving America's problems.

Frum deserves credit for his courage to write this book, but his courage is in suffering the slings and arrows of his fellow conservatives. He could care less what others think.

A Disappointment
I want to start by saying that Frum is very intelligent, and I'm a fan. Though I don't agree with most of the GOP's positions, I read FrumForum everyday and I'm always very impressed when I see Frum on TV. I read Frum's NYT magazine piece, which addresses some of the same issues as in Comeback, and loved it. I had hoped Comeback would be of similar quality, but I was mistaken. This book falls far short of my expectations.

Most of his ideas are good in principle. Yes we need to reform healthcare. Yes we need to do something about the global warming. Yes the middle class hasn't been doing well for the past 30 years and Conservatives need to admit it and try to do something about it. Etc. But the irony is, post-Comeback, a lot of the issues Frum addresses are things Democrats would be more than happy to do (or have done).

Healthcare: Well, the healthcare reform just passed looks like Romney's program in Massachusetts (a program Frum addresses positively, though briefly, in his book). It's for the most part market oriented. I know Frum doesn't like the healthcare reform, but I don't see why it's inconsistent with Frum's book at all.

Global warming: Clearly a Democratic issue. Frum wants a tax on carbon. Liberal Democrats want that too! But Congress's political middle and right don't. I know Democrats were pushing Cap-and-Trade, but that was supposed to be the compromise. And the reason why the compromise didn't make it was because of moderate Republicans walked away.

Helping the middle class: Well, the Democrat's healthcare reform goes a longway. It looks like the GOP will only go along with extending the lower and middle class tax cuts if the rich get their taxes extended too. What's more Paul Rayan's plan actually increases taxes on the poor and middle class, and lowers them for the rich. And Paul Rayan is very much a respected member of the GOP. Which party is Frum supporting again?

I know this isn't so much a direct criticism of Frum's book. But what I'm doing is pointing out that these issues are being addressed, and to a very real extent Conservatism has defined itself as opposed to these reforms. So I can interpret Frum's book as tacitly advocating the dismantling of Conservatism, and replacing it with another Democratic party. Obviously this interpretation makes Frum's book look silly.

Another problem I have with the book is that it's not just about advice for the GOP. A lot of it is simply old fashion anti-Democrat statements. Frum gives a few examples of things Democrats do which, he feels, help the rich and unionized labor at the expense of the middle. I didn't find his points very convincing, which is reasonable because he just interjects them and then moves on. So there's not much hope that his comments will convince anyone, unless you already agree with them. It probably would have been better if he just left those comments out.

Out side of Democrat hating and policy recommendations, there's not much else in Comeback. The book is only 180 pages long. I think he would have done his readers a great service if he would have went into more detail regarding his policy proposals. Generally, he goes into the Bush-era history of the policies he recommends, gives some examples, and addresses the politics. But the book would have been better if he took more time to explain why his policy proposals are good for America. If he wants to convince anyone whom disagree, he needs to dig deeper and explain the mechanics of his recommendations. If you want those detail, then you'll have to go to a different book, which is a huge disservice to Frum's target audience because most of those books are written by liberals.

(If you read this David Frum, know that I love you and I really wanted to like the book, but alas I can't do that.)

Eight commendable policy principles
This book was published in 2008 since then Obama has significantly increased the difficulties that will have to be overcome if the Conservative principles that David Frum has outlined are to be implemented.Just take principle number one, for example: "Private-sector health care for everyone" -- the Obama health care bill has passed and it will step-by-step push the nation to a government-dominated health care system and a still more massive national debt. This damage has to be first undone before there can be any hope for inserting conservative principles into the law of the land.A "How-to-Repudiate-Repeal-Rollback the Obama Program" book written by the most expert conservative is sorely needed

Intellectual conservatism is still around
Comeback is a good guideline for a future Republican president (if there is one again).This was a very well-argued, persuasive book (although I do not agree with Frum on stem cell research). It included one of the best critiques of health care I have read from a conservative.Republicans generally favor the status quo on health care; Frum shows that the current system is a bureaucratic mess that needs to be reformed.A definite must read for any conservative.

Thoughtful, data driven
Having written a book called The Right Man about President George W. Bush, Frum has to somehow point out the mistakes of his old boss without coming across like a jerk. Frum manages the trick nicely, in part because one senses that he is a genuinely nice person who sincerely believes that conservative policies will advance the peace and prosperity of the nation. As other reviews might note, he is not a doctrinaire ideologue, at least not one designed for the righter wing of the conservative movement, but he is thoughtful, articulate and well informed.

Frum eschews the typical road to political best seller land and does not engage in partisan body slams of his opponents. He offers forceful arguments, supported by demographic and polling data, that indicate a future for conservatism. It isn't a fun read but it isn't laborious either, with clear prose and well honed arguments. ... Read more