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Summary: Well-documented and quite FRIGHTENING
Review: This book was a very compelling look at the well-organized machine that is the right. I was impressed with how well-documented the book was, using the words of those on the right to make the case. Those that criticize the book will have to refute an awful lot of quotes and facts by their conservative friends. With all the quotes, citations and endnotes, I don't know how one COULD refute the general claims of this book. What was most frightening for me in this book was the push by the right to completely "wipe them [the left or the democrats] off the face of the planet." This quote by David Horowitz, political strategist for the right, is telling. As the book points out, for the Democrats, politics is a debate between two opposing camps or schools of thought. For the Republicans, it is a war for dominance. I am frightened by a group that does not welcome discourse, especially when that group is so powerful politically and economically. Squashing the political opponent seems very anti-American to me. Read this book. Then vote.
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Summary: A must read
Review: This is a well-written, easy to read, scathing expose on how conservatives have taken control of our government and media, and how the dangerous neoconservatives have stolen control from them with disasterous consequences for our country and the world.
I recommend this, and Rampton and Stauber's other book (Weapons of Mass Deception), to all my friends because it is so jam packed with essential information in a form that is acceptable to even those with an aversion to politics.
Read this book, and then pass it on to a friend!
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Summary: How the Right Took Over and Maintains Their Power
Review: This is an excellent book for those of us on the left that want to understand who the right is, what their agenda is, how they consolidate power and how they maintain it.
The book is a page turner, mildly humorous but very serious.
Some of the concepts it covers aren't surprising (the right sometimes *lies* in order to discredit their opponents), some are fascinating (weekly meetings in Washington between Republican players and lobbyists to place high-ranking Republicans in high-level corporate jobs) and some are simply frightening.
This is the type of book that gets passed along from liberal to liberal until its pages fall away from the binding.
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Summary: How a once-great party has deteriorated
Review: VEry good and timely book, showing how aonce-great political party has deteriorated and sunk to the lower depths, by embracing hate-mongers, bigots, reactionaries, and general crazies to become almost an anti-democratic cult. True conservatives such as Barry Goldwater, if they were alive, would be absolutely appalled at how their party has pandered to the basest instincts of many Americans--fear, intolerance, hate, fanaticism, and bigotry. A warning shot...
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