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Summary: Excellent read
Review: This man really knows how to write. It is fluid and fairly easy to follow, considering how complicated the plot gets with all the various characters he knew throughout his career. The book is very insightful. I was left wondering where he stands now, since I don't believe he is a staunch conservative or a liberal. Gee, he may just have made it to the center!
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Summary: Shining a Light into a Vast Well of Darkness
Review: It is a rare person who can own up to past mistakes and youthful delusions. More rare is a person doing so publicly. So, bravo to David Brock. I've nothing but admiration for that all-too-rare quality of trying to correct personal wrongs. (And David, a request? Please call Anita Hill and finally apologize. Does she not deserve this? And will you not benefit as well?)That said, Brock's book is a fascinating, grim, and quite scary insiders look at what is wrong with American politics. Sadly, I've no idea of how to repair the serious decline in ethics, standards -- and vision -- that has overwhelmed American politics (right and left), but I thank Brock for shining a light into a vast well of darkness.
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Summary: A Journey through America Political Culture War's Right
Review: David Brock, former right-wing conservative pundit and inner circle (investigative) reporter tells his story of becoming a rabidly conservative writer and then his turn of conscience to the compassionate left. Pretty interesting read about the workings of the inner circle of the right wing conservatives. He wrote a bit of material in the Washington Times, the Spectator, and a couple of other conservative rags. He wrote the book about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, "vindicating" Thomas' alleged sexual misbehavior (which turned out to be true in the end). Eventually, he came out of the closet, but remained a friend of the circle due to his excellent ability to bash democrats. In the end, he was cast out because he wouldn't write an inaccurate book about Hillary Clinton (however, he wrote an ill-informed book on Anita Hill during a time of more innocence -- at least this is how Brock puts it) and because he was gay which had been accepted as long as he was bashing democrats and the left. Brock tells all. He drops lots of names and stories about how this upper circle operates and what they hope to accomplish. Mostly he claims the information within is true. At times he offers some speculations and some rumors, but mostly not. The story runs chronologically and adds a lot of his personal insights and some quotes and references. It does seem a bit repetitive at times, but its removal might have made the book seem more a list of facts than feeling like you're sort of tagging along looking over his shoulder. Interesting nonetheless and a good reason for all of us to remain wary about and attentive to what is happening now. The main unfortunate thing is no cheat sheet on the cast of characters, although it'd be pages long. At times, it was hard to keep up with all the people introduced. You'll have to make your own.
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Summary: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Right Wing
Review: David Brock's "Blinded by the Right..." is required reading for political junkies, especially those who were on the battlefield during the "scandal" hysteria over the Clintons in the 1990s. Brock, who began as a Bobby Kennedy follower, changed when at Berkley during the early 1980s he witnessed the intolerance of leftist student politics. Disillusioned, he moved right--far right--and became famed at a journalistic hit man for the Right, targetting Anita Hill, the bimbos in Bill Clinton's past, and other liberal icons working for the Washington Times and The Spectator magazine. In some ways, Brock's book is two stories: one is of his political journey from left to right to, I guess, moderate. This should be taken into account in reading his account because passionate devotees of a cause who recant are not always the best reporters of what in fact took place. Brock's accounts of his former right-wing friends, their physical appearance, their homes, mannerisms, etc., is often biting and a bit snippy. The other story is of Brock, a gay man who was deep in the closet during his long association with Rightist moralists, and his "coming out" and the effect it had on his friends and associates. The most useful part of the book is Brock's detailing of the "vast right-wing conspirators," the venom and hatred they displayed against the Clintons in which truth and fact are sublimated to their eventual goal of the overthrow of the Clintons, and the generally unflattering portraits of most of the Conservative movers and shakers. It is, in many respects, a chilling portrait. Liberals, too, can be mean and nasty but as a whole they are Sunday School players compared to the Rightist opposition. One drawback to the book is the lack of an index and, perhaps, some sort of list of names and who they were and what they did. Those who follow politics closely can get by, by those not immersed may find the going a bit confusing.
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Summary: I Wish I Could Believe Him
Review: I don't doubt that there is the possibility of a right-wing conspiracy. I enjoy seeing people like Ann Coulter get trashed in print...to a point. I would just rather have the source of this information be someone with a bit more credibility than Mr. Brock. When all is said and done, one is left with the impression that the only cause David Brock truly believes in is David Brock, and that totally undermines his credibility. I would like to believe him...but his rather compromised background makes it impossible. The result leaves the liberal reader more unsatisfied than anything else.
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Summary: Don't know if I can finish!
Review: I'm about halfway through but I have become so angry that I had to put it down and switch to a book on herb gardening for a breath of fresh air. It amazes me that people can sink so low under the guise of being minders of the country's best interests. How do these people go to sleep at night?
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Summary: Conservative....YEAH RIGHT
Review: ... Not only does this book lack in any good reason for being Liberal it is poorly written, boring and sometimes hard to understand who this person is talking about. I'd pass on this book if given another chance....
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Summary: A Fascinating Book, important to understand the 90's
Review: This is simply an amazing, detailed and damning book that gives a complete documentation of the conservative tactics used during the 1990's. Liberals should read this to understand what they are up against and conservatives in the hope of making up for some of their egregious actions.
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Summary: Stupid book by an author who doesn't know much
Review: What a book of lies. How can a person write a whole book based on opinion rather than fact. What a waste of time.
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Summary: Conservative or Liberal...this book is a must read.
Review: Like THE POWER GAME, THE AMBITION AND THE POWER and THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT before it...this book is essential to understanding politics today. Whether you are conservative, liberal or moderate...you need to understand the forces that make the headlines happen. Brock brings you behind the curtain and explains the reasons why major scandals of the 1990's occured and who was behind them.
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