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Summary: Allen is not emotionally intelligent
Review: This book is for those who see themselves as highly intelligent and the rest of the population highly lacking. Steve Allen takes 40% of the book to tell Americans why they are stupid. The rest of the book outlines 101 ways to become "intelligent". Some of the advice is to listen to and watch news on radio and TV. Personally I would disagree with this advice. Another sample is to be neither negative or positive but both. I find that most people are either one or the other.My problem with the book is that he was mainly negative. He seemed arrogant, cruel, and insensitive with a bit of hate toward those who were less intelligent. He says he receives hate mail from mental cases. I can see why this book attracts those types of letters. His 101 pieces of advice are written as if he is the highly intelligent teacher to the lowly barely awake student (reader). I find this to be, using his term, dumbth. He appears not to be emotionally intelligent.
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Summary: Steve Allen tells it like it is
Review: This book is one I give as a gift to people. First because it is so nice to see an author who has the maturity to tell his readers that we are a nation of dumb people. People who have lost the art of critical thinking. Some don't like the fact he is so honest. But read his book, then become observant of the world around you. I venture that within hours you will begin to see what he is talking about. This is a really great book all about common sense or the lost art of common sense.
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