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Summary: What freedom?
Review: When Gordon Liddy was a kid, black people couldn't drink out of the same water fountains as white people, to say nothing of the other frequently violent indignities associated with segregation across the U. S. South. The America of his childhood may have been "free" for him but it wasn't for a whole lot of other people.
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Summary: A [Weak], nostalgic ramble
Review: This book was quite possibly the most ill-informed attack on common knowledge I have ever read. From the moment he puts the term Global Warming in quotes, I was wary of everything he said after. Most of this seems like chauvinistic [words] that he wrote to appeal to the ill-educated, gun-toting, midwestern republican that would want to read this. He complains about not being able to burn leaves anymore! Take my advice and read something intelligent, not these malicious lies that my 3rd-grader could come up with.
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Summary: *...
Review: Liddy's philosophy bit is hit and miss, so I'm going to press you to buy this book for the Watergate section. Watergate brought down a President. The official story on Watergate is not remotely what really happened. What Liddy relates in the Watergate section is what really happened (with plenty of objective evidence to prove it, as it was proved recently in a court of law). Even for those of you who have read the truest of Watergate books, that Liddy refers to, SILENT COUP, you must read this book, too, because Liddy furthers the story beyond SILENT COUP. Watergate is an important bit of history, and if you read this book, you'll be "in the know" like (unfortunately) few people are.
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Summary: A very important book!
Review: If you want to know how a few terrorists can overturn civilization, READ THIS BOOK. I suspect that Osama bin Laden's plans are very similar to those of the author of this book: disrupt daily life, undermine confidence in the government, kill a few million people, then pick up the pieces and kill everyone else as the country dissolves... So I think it is important for Americans to read this just as 50 years ago we should have read "Mein Kampf." A smaller point: this book implicitly rebuts the Holocaust deniers. For decades, white supremacists have been claiming that the Holocaust never occurred. But Liddy (or "GG" as he calls himself) makes it clear that his problem with Hitler was that the Holocaust didn't go far enough, and that white supremacists really DO want to exterminate Jews, blacks and a lot of other people. Otherwise, I pretty much share the sentiments of other reviewers: I found this book to be evil, terrifying, and fascinating, especially since a pretty large chunk of my family died in the Nazi Holocaust... I wasn't sure whether to give this book 1 star (because it is so evil) or 5 stars (because it is so important to read) so I split the difference.
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: G. Gordon Liddy offers a unique perspective on our eroding freedomds based on a lifetime of experience. His words will inform and entertain you, as well as motivate you to become more involved with your elected reperesentatives at the local and national level. This book provides valuable history lessons that you won't find anywhere else. It should be required reading in all schools. It's a great read, Buy it!
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Summary: Liddy sounds better than this book reads
Review: Beware of seductive titles. I was intrigued enough to buy the book but then I was disappointed. Liddy comes across too much like the testosterone-loaded, old-fashioned curmudgeon than an enlightened conservative. He overstates his premise, back "when I was a kid". His views on women are most troubling, even to other conservatives. Some of what he writes makes sense. There are many basic, 'American' values worthy of attention and possible restoration. In fact, there is much with which any basic conservative, even centrist could agree. But Liddy barks and sometimes bites, when he could be charming and convincing. I apprecate his knowledge, education and experience. I can even appreciate his sense of loyalty, duty and honor -- in or out of jail. But, for me, this book needed a greater sense of perspective.
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Summary: Oh, please stop your liberal whining.
Review: I can't believe some of the other reviews. To compare a longing for the days before the nanny state and massive government intrusion into personal liberty with a desire to subjugate blacks and women shows just off their rocker these people can be. As far as there being no blacks giving this book a positive review, how racist. It show's the typical liberal bias against conservative blacks. I think Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell would agree with much of Liddy's position. Liberals can't stand freedom and liberty because then people might choose to do things they don't like.
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Summary: does Liddy have the moral authority to criticize anybody?
Review: I have to agree with Liddy's assessment of political correctness, which is a good idea but implemented with a kind of social fascism that is all too common. However, the hypocrisy of Liddy defending American values is kind of sickening. For some reason, we want to idolize people like Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy, those simple honest American soldiers who are just following orders, even when those orders subvert the Constitution of the United States.
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Summary: Try to focus on the message people.
Review: Today if one states a preference for any part of the past, rabid leftists snarl and slaver in rage over the attendent negatives of that era. You say you like the days when you were a kid? Hey! There were Jim Crow laws then, you racist! Dammit, pull your consciousness from the trough of political correctness and consider that we as individuals are making fewer decisions for ourselves, while the growing nanny state that is the Fed takes more decisions for us, such as whether we can fill our pond, cut our tree, fasten our seatbelt or refuse to drug our energetic
kids to calm them for teachers' convenience. Liddy recalls when families were expected to work for their bread and could do so--quite well, with just the husband working and the wife staying home to rear the children. Because she could do it, and wanted to do it, and the tax burden was not yet so crushing that women were required to toil for a second paycheck.
Hear the message, not whatever implications you would like to attach. This is Liddy's book, and what he means is what he writes, not what loudmouth liberals want to infer.
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Summary: Talk about a dinosaur!
Review: Yeah, when I was a kid Blacks could not walk on the sidewalk or sit anyplace they liked on the bus. Now that's freedom. Women could not hold many jobs and and a river in Ohio caught fire because factories were free to dump whatever garbage they liked in it. Hey, I really want the old days back, especially those hoped for by a felon who attempted to subvert the freedom of the American voter.
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