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 enlarge | Authors: Micah Ian Wright, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Zinn, Center For Constitutional Rights (commentary)
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
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Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 1583225846
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781583225844
ASIN: 1583225846
Publication Date: May 2003
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 Fascinating. December 8, 2005
15 out of 48 found this review helpful
This work is part of a disturbing trend that, I fear, bodes significant ill for the long-term health of political debate within this country.
The artwork in the book itself is not the indicator of this intellectual rot. Wright's work is vacuous fluff that -- truly -- is irrelevant.
What is relevant is the continued embrace of this sham of a man by fans on the political left. Wright is an admitted, if hardly apologetic, liar whose ever-so-very modest claim to fame is his military record as a Ranger and veteran of the invasion of Panama. Of course, this record is a complete fabrication and Wright's actual military service record amounts to a semester or two college ROTC where he learned just enough to lie with a semblance of skill and pass himself off as the real thing to those without the knowledge of the subject matter to see through his lie.
Allow me to state this emphatically -- this is a man whose only claim to fame is based on his being a liar who tried to pass himself off as a combat veteran in one of the nation's most elite military units.
I find it curious how accepting the far Left remains of this man (but perhaps I should not be, as the contribution of Howard Zinn to this work serves as a reminder that liars are not new within the radical left), how eager to forgive and forget. It seems to me to be just the latest installment in the intellectual decline of the American Left, illuminated by other signposts like the embrace of fascist demagogues like George Galloway, recurring faith in the journalistic acrobatics of Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, overt support fascist terrorists in the Middle East by Michael Moore, etc. I'm not sure where this intellectual decline is leading, but I suspect its most profound expression will be the continued ascendancy of the Republican Party (plus/minus the possibility of another charismatic psuedo-liberal like Bill Clinton . . .).
Is there something doubly ironic in a man whose credentials as an anti-war pundit are based purely on lies trying to sell propaganda? Perhaps, but it is an irony wasted on a man like Micah Wright, too clever by half but utterly lacking in integrity. I fear it is an irony wasted on his supporters and fans as well.
Simple photoshopping from a pathological liar. November 7, 2005
17 out of 44 found this review helpful
What Wright has done here is to collect some old propoganda posters, and add new mottos and other eits. Very slick, and kind of cute. Unfortunately he promoted the book by claiming he was an Army Ranger, in order to make it look as if he was an "insider" protesting the military.
He was exposed as a liar, and promised to apologize on his web site.
He never did.
 Micah was & still is correct about the fate of this nation March 20, 2005
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book serves as a friendly reminder that you could be the next victim of the draft especially since Bush and the GOP are heading towards bringing back the draft and this time it will be worse because not even moving to Canada or going to college will save you from it. Now that Bush has gotten his second term, he and GOP are already moving towards going to war with Iran. People, you wouldn't support a president who sends his citizens to fight useless wars for corporate profiteering, so there's no reason Bush is any better. Besides, the truth is troops will never be withdrawn from Iraq no matter what the right wing media tries to lie to you about.
Great book March 2, 2005
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
Everyone can have their opinion, but my opinion is that its a fantastic book...5 stars. Don't be fooled by the media, do your own investigation to this war and many other prior one's. You'll be surprise as to how our politicians are so Pro freedom when in fact they support dictatorships, e.g Saudi Arabia and funded Hitler. So keep up the great work Micah and don't let anyone encroach on your freedom of speech. There is always a time for Revolution just like the founding fathers did, even though there was a genocide of many native American's and Afrikaans in the process. So don't think that our nation was always a goody two shoes and still isn't. We all seem to forget our pass history and repeat them over and over again. So then, one must ask, why is that?.....Because of the beast we are enslaved to called "MONEY" the one thing that rules us all and we don't think nothing of it.
 This book is kind of disappointing November 24, 2004
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
All of the posters are terrific. I don't care what the man's past is. This is what DISSENT looks like. It's what FREEDOM looks like. It's what AMERICA looks like and will continue to look like, unless the neo-con / psycho-fascist / GOP Nazi-publicans have their way, when artists will be "disappeared". That aside, the problem I have is that there are so FEW posters. Not only that but the size of the book is disappointing. Something in a larger format would have been more welcome. [...]
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