Rating: 
Summary: Interesting
Review: The author makes some very interesting and valuable points,
but he unhappily taints his observations by making his entire
premise that all the troubles with our world are caused by Pres.
Geo. Bush and Republicans. Anyone who can read has to know better than that, and any reader will have to pick between his
slanted political diatribes to get at the nuggets he presents.
The valuable points he does make is that most of the political
and economic decisions being made in the country are being made
by a handful of very large companies and a few politicans.He presents some fine examples of that, and those examples make
the book worth reading, but, as noted, the bias he displays
will interfere with a full appreciation of his points. And, buried somewhere within, even this author finally concedes
the same things were going on during the Clinton administration,
so we are left wondering why he tries to blame everything on
the Bush administration. But it is very worthwhile to read his examples of just what effect big money and greedy people have on the quality of our
life in the US and the direction such is going.
Rating: 
Summary: Theives in High Places:Hightower wishes he were one of them!
Review: This is illiterate whining by a liberal democrat loser who was shut out of Texas politics by the Republicans. Hightower has an ax to grind and that's what his books are all about.
Rating:
Summary: burn this book now!
Review: I cannot tell you how much I hated this book and urge you to boycott it. I am a lifelong Republican and activist. My party stands for those who are successful, Christian minded, and controlling those who want to hurt American business. - First of all, how dare you oppose Bush in not supporting of the glorious war and Crusade against non-Christian infidels? What's all this bull about WMDs? Saddam killed, so we killed, might makes right in any sensible mind. So all those who are against Bush are going to hell.
- Democrats are all renegade swine, quite frankly, and it's a crying shame they are even allowed to vote. Jesus would have supported Bush in his war against muslim sheep and cutting funds for people who are disabled, crippled, retarded, old, etc. It's their own fault, Bush didn't make these losers the way they are.
- So Bush didn't win the popular election; God wanted him to be President, God didn't trust the 'popular majority' and God wanted a military hero like Bush in office. Thank God for our unbiased Supreme Court.
- Furthermore, how dare you show narrow-minded animosity at Bush when he is a self made man. Don't believe those who say the US doesn't have enough jobs. If the Mexicans can find jobs, so can you. Republicans get better jobs because we know the game, know how to take advantage of the system, and because of our Godly contacts. You should buy Anne Coulter books instead. She is the leading spokeswoman for the Republican party because she knows and speaks our truth. Quotes from her:
• "I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it....it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."-- Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01
• "...a cruise missile is more important than Head Start."-- Speech, 11/01, rebroadcast by C-Span in Jan. 2002
• "In his brief fiery ride across the landscape, Joe McCarthy bought America another thirty years. For this, he sacrificed his life, his reputation, his name. The left cut down a brave man, but not before the American people heard the truth."-- The Drudge Report, quoting from Coulter's new book, Treason, 6/19/03 • "We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons will get our opposition out of the way."-- Column, 9/25/02
• "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."-- Column, 9/13/01
• "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."-- Speech to Conservative Political Action Conference, January 2002 • "Soldiers are just cowards with their backs against the wall. The lowest IQ men in our society, those incapable of normal careers enlist. Their choice in life; prison or the military. Some will have to die in the support of our cause."-- Intervention Magazine, 11/06/03
• "The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle."-- Column, 1/24/02
• "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."-- New York Observer interview, 8/20/02
• "Then there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal."-- WorldNetDaily, 12/10/03 My hero is the Ex-House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, GOP presidential prospect, and architect of the Republican Party's failed impeachment of President Clinton. He only failed because Newt was having an affair. Who could blame Newt, his wife went and got sick with cancer. That was completely different from Clinton.
Unlike Clinton, Newt was smart enough to divorce his wife after she got sick and could no longer drag him down with her. Lastly, how dare you stumblingly expose your miscreant incompetence with rantings against the Patriot Act. In my mind
Some Americans have too many Constitutional rights. The Bill of Rights should not even apply to the blue-collar middle classes who are too stupid to get involved. No Bush hating media or newspapers should have 'freedom of the press,' since they only have their rights and freedoms because the rich allow them to have them. Ever see some poor slob or middle class idiot who owned a newspaper company? You defamatory libelous, uneducated swine should keep your comments to yourselves or we'll send your job overseas. Go out and burn this book now! I'll pray everyone who buys this book will burn in hell!
Rating: 
Summary: Focuses the Light of Reform on the Source of the Problem
Review: Hightower (like fellow writer Michael Moore) has the guts to tell the truth. The real terrorists are occupying the White House, Capitol Hill, and the rest of the high places of government. People around the world don't hate our freedoms or average everyday Americans. Instead they hate the greedy face of corporate America that supports torurous regimes that destroy their livelihoods and cultures. If you want to fight terrorism, read this book, and vote BushCo out of office in November. Otherwise the next constitutional amendment there creeps go for will be aimed right at you. If you are afraid of the truth, and wish to live in fear as BushCo wants you to, roll over and play dead. Otherwise, get this today, and get to work.
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Summary: Turn our complaining into action
Review: This book will make you laugh out loud and make you angry and sad. Hightower describes what has been stolen in a lighthanded manner, but thinking about the problems as a whole can stop the reader in their tracks with the enormity of it all: but then there is A Drama in One Act - Bob Runs for President. I've been watching Tanner 88 on the Sundance Channel, and Bob gives the kind of speech Tanner does when he is just talking to his staff- straight from the heart. He gives the kind of straight talk we are hungering for. The reader finishes the book with the charge "Maybe we can turn our complaining into action. Now wouldn't that be something." I wonder what Jim Hightower thinks of the recent decision of NPR to take on Walmart as an Underwriter?
Rating:
Summary: Mars?
Review: The reviewers who gave this book more than one star HAVE TO BE from another planet.
Rating:
Summary: Should be read by the DNC
Review: Hightowers book should be mandatory reading for the DNC. It should be read by Terry McAuliff, James Carvill and everyone else who is somebody in the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton sold us out with NAFTA and as Hightower points out, many of the outrageous things the Republicans have done from the Patriot Act to destroying the environment, have been done with the help of Democrats. I for one have no political affiliation at this time, I have been betrayed not only by the Republicans and Democrats, but also the Supreme Court. I agree with Jim Hightower's idea's about grass roots efforts to take our Country back and I hope that about 250 million others feel the same way.
Rating:
Summary: The operative words are "take it back"
Review: I listen to Jim Hightower's commentaries fairly regularly on our local public radio station, so I assumed that this book would simply summarize the bad news I'd already heard. The first part was indeed like that, although it also has a "connect the dots" aspect that's pretty persuasive. But parts 2 and 3 are Jim at his rabble-rousing best: inspiring accounts of how people all over the country have managed to thwart the Kleptocrats, and suggestions how the rest of us can do the same. Faced with corruption in high places, it's easy to conclude that resistance is futile -- but his examples show that it isn't, and that taking small steps locally is the route to winning our country back.
Rating:
Summary: Depressing but necessary reading
Review: Another of a few core books describing the depths to which the leaders of this country, political and otherwise, have sunk. Most people don't want to know the facts researched and presented in these books, simply because they prefer to live in ignorant bliss. The sad part is through such inaction and self-deception, they are letting the rich priviledged minority rob them, and the rest of us, blind and destroy the key values that have made America the great country that it is. I only hope more people read this, and other books (see The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, for example) like this; but even more so, I hope that people are inspired to DO SOMETHING!
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Summary: Novel?
Review: A bit of advice to reviewer Mendoza: before writing your next review, please go to a library, get out an English dictionary and look up the definition of the following words: literature
novel You might also compare the meanings of: fiction
non-fiction
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