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Summary: What a guy!
Review: Does your house need painting? Then hire this guy, his skill at "whitewashing" on a grand scale is second to none!This is the kind of book that confirms everybody's prejudices, and adds nothing to their knowledge.
If you are a gung ho patriot, you'll believe every word and assume that America is indeed God's chosen country.
If you already see America as rather less than spotless, this book will confirm your suspicion that self-styled patriots couldn't tell fact from fiction if their lives depended on it. And if that's want you want, this is the book for you!
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Summary: Plays to the Gallery
Review: Dinesh D'Souza seems to have figured out the Americans. Like Rush Limbaugh, he plays to the gallery consisting of a White crowd. Never mind the truth, just heaping lavish praise boosts the ego of this crowd and Dinesh D'Souza acts as a lusty cheerleader for the Whites.
No new perspectives, no new information, just out and out praise for Whites - that is what his book is about.
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Summary: Can't argue with fact and logic, read with an open mind
Review: For all those who are grappling with our role in the oppresson of minorities and 3rd world nations. For those convinced that reperations are the way to bring about social justice... for those who want to support our country but question the moral foundation for our war and foriegn policies- this book will provide new ideas, factual and logical debate all tied together with new justification for patriotism and hope.
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Summary: Another winner from the author of Illiberal Education
Review: How nice to see books written that stick up for this great nation, while on America's college campuses, students are taught to hate America by the hate-America Left. I was leaving my campus library with another book by this author one day, and I saw that at my campus, someone had put up a sign that a student had made which read "Hate is not a family value." How on Earth can one find a link between "family" values and the word "hate" anyways? Apparently, the campus Left equates the two and puts outrageous signs like that up to slander those Americans not on the hate-America Left. This wonderful book in support of America is a must-read, as is another book about the illiberal college campus entitled "The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses" by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate. I have always wondered why those who hate America so much don't just go somewhere else. If it is so oppressive to be here, then perhaps the whiners should just be on their way out? The rest of us can help them pack...swiftly...so more immigrants like D'Souza can come on over to take their places.
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Summary: Questions for one-star pseudo-intellectuals
Review: For anyone rating this book one-star, please answer the following: 1) If America is such a terrible place and you are ashamed to be an American, which country would you rather be in? 2) Which country, other than America, can someone who starts poor become rich? Why are most of the richest Americans self-made (many are immigrants, even). 3) Why do immigrants from all over the world want to come here of their own free will? Why has an immigrant written this book on behalf of a nation he was not in until age 20? 4) Do you enjoy using things invented in America, such as TVs, cars, computers, email, soft drinks, telephones, etc? Any one-star reviewer who henceforth posts without answering these questions is pretty much revealing that they are not interested in right or wrong, just their own hate-mongering, and their reviews will carry no value. Only cowards hide from the truth. D'Souza never says America is perfect, he points out all the flaws. He just says that America has fewer flaws and is more benevolent a society than any other. I don't see how any sane person can dispute his logic. It seems that liberals are judging America by a utopian standard, rather than judging America against the rest of the world. That, of course, is irrational. Even the most liberal senators, like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, are still, after all, patriots. I think even they would be shocked by the ignorant hate-mongering exhibited here by uneducated liberals.
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Summary: A great read
Review: D'Souza methodically describes what America stands for and what separates it from other nations. He carefully contrasts America and other nations (mainly his native India) on key principles. His writing style is very clear and easy to read. He sticks to the facts, with a lot of documentation to back his claims up. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would have liked to see it go a little longer, though. Did the reviewers who gave this one-star read the same book that I did? There is no racism, elitism, etc. in this book.
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Summary: America is Great NO matter what u say...just face it people.
Review: I'm not rich, I'm just a hard-working blue collar employee...but let me tell u something...so don't think I'm praising AMerica b/c i got everything...those of u who u who don't think this book is great..at least as a tribute to America...should either get out of the country and experience what its like in other countries, then u will appreciate America...y does America always have to take the burden of other countries...we're even trying to change the pledge of allegiance..start counting ur blessings for being here or if ur elsewhere..u can only dream and wish...good luck to u all...and once in a while ask not what ur country can do for u but what u can do for ur country...( quoted by Kennedy )...No country is perfect...yes true...but america is damn close...at least it gives u opportunities...what other country does that...yea take a resume and a degree to the bombay streets of India or Afghanistan...sure there are plenty of opportunities there...so don't ever put down America...
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Summary: A look in the mirror
Review: Since Mr. D'Souza has been labeled with a "conservative" identifier, most will dismiss this book without bothering to look past the cover.
Mr. D'Souza argues with a clear logic his opinions, opinions that can be as grating to the conservative ear as they doubtless are to the liberal. Luckily for my ears, I fall into neither camp.
The basic premise of his book is answering the question "If America is such a terribly oppressive place (as her critics argue) why do millions around the globe leave their countries (now as well as in the past) to come here?"
His arguments take apart the doctrines of multi-culturalism and moral equivalency- the pillars of liberal ideology. THAT is the left wing's primary objection to this book.
His arguments are very convincing, and will be difficult to answer. I eagerly await the left's response, which so far has been little beyond the traditional cries of "ism" crimes.
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Summary: Refreshing Logic
Review: This book was such an easy read as it dealt with what are normally heated subjects with objective and unemotional logic. D'Souza excellently debunks the the leftist and multiculturist way of thinking by showing that their hypotheses and conclusions are rooted in erroneous beliefs and emotional dribble.
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Summary: Oh, Say Can't You See ! - Critiquing Criticisms
Review: In a well documented challenge to the critics of America, D'Souza provides a cogent argument for what has, and does, make America so great, while not minimizing her faults. Perhaps it is fitting that a relatively recent immigrant to this Country should, so very poignantly, dismantle the criticisms leveled at America by foreign and domestic critics, who hold her up to an ideal that no other country is, nor could withstand such comparison. From decadence to sexism, to slavery, racism and reparations, D'Souza confronts realism vs. idealism. in cogently arguing how western civilization, capitalism, and technology have benefited this Country, as well as how western civilization (i.e., colonialism) has benefited his native India. An eloquent reminder of what too many conveniently ignore!
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