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 enlarge | Author: Jonah Goldberg
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  373 reviews
Sales Rank: 709
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0385511841
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.533
EAN: 9780385511841
ASIN: 0385511841
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
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 Eyeopener December 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Goldberg's analysis and conclusions brilliantly redefine what we've known as the political divide. Will be hard to swallow for those on the Left.
Instructive, Penetrating and Well-Written December 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best book written on politics in the US in at least a quarter-century. You might read this along with The Creature from Jekyll Island to understand US politics, and economics.
 Good checking out from the library December 22, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book was good as a library checkout, but I would not buy the book. In the last chapter, the author admits that he is angry at the fact that liberals call him fascist. So he tries to point out that they themselves are fascist. Fascism is a form of dictatorship, and neither the Right or the Left are immune from it. Each sides accuses the other side of wanting to take away their freedoms, and of wanting to become the "dictator" of the US.
Fascism and Nazis were anti-religious, just the same as communism, and the some powerful people on the current Left. But on the other hand, G-d fearing Christians were handing Jews over to the Nazis to be exterminated. During the Warsaw Ghetto uprising the good Christians were having Easter Mass. Kids in America and Europe were playing the Baptize or Die games. You can't have something like the Holocaust happen without both sides, Left and Right, looking the other way. They may have been looking the other way for different reasons, but they were both looking the other way.
The history is interesting, but the author is definitely biased.
Very informative and necessary reading for all Americans. December 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought the book on Audio (Unabridged). Jonah Goldberg takes the reader on an in-depth study of the the paradoxical; the fascistic tendencies of the left. If Jonah had known that Obama was going to win the election I'm sure he would have expanded more on Saul Alinsky and "Community Organizing" (aka "Community Agitating") (both of these topics were briefly talked about in the book).
Great read. Thank you Jonah for your effort in writing this book and for making an audio version!
 Fabricated 'connect the dots' Neo-con reasoning December 15, 2008
5 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a book without scholarly merit. It cherry picks historical narratives and uses adjectives that improperly create a vision of things that never existed. Sadly and historically inaccurate, the author succeeds only in validating the bias nature of his propaganda.
Conveniently left out are the true American Fascists and Nazi sympathizers of the age. Notably, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America with other Right-Wing Conservatives of the day, a true historical fact.
Popularized by Karl Rove, the Right attacks the Left for the very things they themselves are actively implementing and denying. The trick of this kind of propaganda is to accuse your opponent of what is in fact your actual goals, aims, and shortcomings.
Since 9/11 we have seen the Right boldly legislating restrictions to basic freedoms. Nothing is more Fascists than the unchallenged Wealthy-Elite Corporate Capitalism employed by the Right today.
Fortunately democracy can change this, unfortunately it took an economic and war disaster for most people to see the truth.
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