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Summary: This book must be good...
Review: ...it seems to have the deep thinkers on the left bouncing off walls. I think I'll buy a few for Christmas presents.
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Summary: Truth!
Review: This book by Hannity provides facts, rather than attacks. Thanks Mr. Hannity!
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Summary: Good But
Review: After reading the book's title, I realized that a large number of neg. criticisms would be hysterical responses by those who see themselves as terrorists, despots, and liberals. (ah, juh.. OK)
The title is provocative but the book itself is pretty standard fare if you listen to Sean at all. He has researched people, events pretty well. I think he succeeded in the task he set himself. I gave him 4 stars and not 5. Ammunition for debate on people and character issues there is a plenty. There is an historical over view that is necessarily brief but shallow... especially for those of us in the late boomer generation who had decent history books and teachers, or lived through some of the events. The books description of evil doesn't dig into the diff.world view underpinnings that informs and guides today's evil. He does focus on character but a clarification of the dramatically different world views would be helpful.What I think would have been helpful... without going into extensive philosophical underpinnings, is a clear outline of the foundations that supports the differences about what is true; what is a lie. What is it that underlies the differences between the opponents values (which never change) ? What are the priorities (which can and do change) about which the 2 sides are dramatically at odds in America in light of those differing values? All sides use the same words but such different meanings.If you remove immigration and their different cultures, we still have tremendous cultural differences colliding... just among WASPS! In so far as it goes,the book IS helpful in the discussion and worth the money.
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Summary: It was fair.
Review: I have a friend who thinks that Hannity, his idealogy and his book are great. He took it upon himself to create a Acrobat file of the book (it must have taken a long time) so that he could print out copies and give it to friends. It was expensive, time consuming and a waste of time (in my opinion).
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Summary: Excellent analysis of current world situation
Review: Indeed, it has been nearly 3 years since 9/11, the day the conservative pundit business went through the roof, and it continues to make millionaires out of the legions of right-wing bibble-di-babblers that are crowding the cable talk shows and best-selling book lists. Although we are bombarded with the same message 24 hours a day from the countless conservative yakkety-yakkety-yakkety-yakkers on tv, it is good to have another book to affirm what we already believe: terror bad, bush good...liberals bad, conservatives good, Hillary bad, bush good.... They may be simple concepts that can be summed up in 2 or 3 lines, but Hannity expands on these ideas and presents us with passionate opinions on individual liberals and particular events to demonstrate how liberals are bad and conservatives are good and uses large fonts, so that it stretches out to over 300 pages and you feel like your getting your money's worth. Although it is tragic to think about the thousands who died on 9/11 and the young soldiers who are dying in Iraq every day, it does warm one's heart to see thoughtful, articulate, self-satisfied young Americans like Hannity making the most out of the situation. This is his 2nd book about this subject, and it is basically a carbon copy of his first book that came out last year. Hopefully, he puts this book out with a different title every year, so that future generations will also be enlightened by his brilliant message of liberals and terrorists bad, conservatives good.
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Summary: An ex-liberal who READ the book.
Review: Unlike most of the reviewers here, I actually READ the book before I wrote this review. Not being a logician, I'm not sure about the claims of circular reasoning. It seemed reasonable enough to me, but I do agree that the book lacks depth. Regardless, it is a novel look at our political system and the forces driving it. To achieve more depth, Hannity will doubtless have to spend much time refining and developing his theory, just as any scientist would develop supporting material after proposing a new theory. But he deserves great credit for the courage in proclaiming such a "controversial" idea as good and evil. I find it very amusing that the majority of the "liberal" reviewers of this book are so consumed by their hatred of Hannity that they virtually confirm his theory of the existence of evil by spewing ill-written, misspelled hate speech all over this site. I also observed that the majority never even mention the book, which I very much doubt that they read, and were unwilling to display their true names, preferring to hide behind anonymity while spouting their ill-aimed bile. If anyone doubted the truth of Hannity's views, a cursory examination of these reviews would certainly confirm their legitimacy. It appears that the "free love" of the sixties, which provided the basis for much of current Liberal thought, has devolved into an "establishment" of reactionary, knee-jerk liberalism. I am an old hippy myself, but I don't remember this much hatred being a part of the sixties scene. I think the conservatives and the liberals have traded political roles over the years. I am in favor of overthrowing the establishment as much as the next liberal, but the liberals have BECOME the establishment. The hatred that they continually express is appalling, more akin to the reactionary fear of the older generation in the early sixties than the supposed generosity and free thinking of the "compassionate" party. Unlike others who claim to be such, I AM an independent thinker. I don't agree with all that Hannity espouses, but I believe that his views deserve serious consideration, regardless of the flaws of the book. The book is a good read, expressing serious and important thought, and is deserving of better treatment than it has received at the hands of so-called "liberals".
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Summary: DEMOCRATS FEAR SPEECH
Review: Why else would they spend precious calories debating on Amazon when they should be out garning up a grass roots campaign for their white millionaire Presidential nominee?
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Summary: It's all so simple
Review: Yes, its all simple. Evil is behind everything we don't like, like terrorism and the democratic party. Why didn't anyone think of this before? It seems so simple once somebody points it out! Seriously, even though I am not a great intellectual and I dont have predictable politcail view (mixed views, I mean. I have mixed view), I have say that this book was insulting to me. These arguments simplify everything so much that they seem to be written for children (or maybe for adults who think like they are children). Teh fact that it is so successful makes me think there are either a lot of children buying this kind of book or (oh my God) so many adults who still have the intellectual background of children!
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Summary: More Trash From A Loud-Mouthed Bigot
Review: Trash like this does not even deserve more than a one sentence review.
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Summary: Democrats Fear Speech
Review: You know you have a good book when Democrats can't respond with logical argument and can only resort to a name calling campaign. Hannity's confrontation of liberal evil resonates with decent hardworking Americans (those of us who don't wake up in gated Malibu mansions). Liberals are collectivley twitterpated by Hannity's exercise of free speech that opposes their anti-American agenda. The rise in Democrat anxiety levels is proportional to Hannity's popularity. They seem shocked that a hard a working American that pulled himself up by the bootstraps is more in touch with America than the elected white millionaire Democrat leadership.
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