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Summary: sigh.....
Review: ah the day when the conservatives on this board stop trying to one up the good reviews and actually back up why they don't like this book (I would like "New Yorker" to prove how Krugman uses "undocumented" figures). I laugh at your ignorance, new yorker. sigh....
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Summary: why such negative reviews
Review: I don't understand how people can give this one star, it is such a well-written moderate book!? Even if you don't agree with everything he has to say, he presents his arguments with strong factual information to back it up. (Lets see that from the Franken's or Limbaughs of this country) I get the feeling conservatives are so sensitive to liberals "attacking" the bush administration that they can't take a step back and see if Krugmans arguments have any merit, because I believe they do. This is coming from non-democrat by the way. Fabulous book, a must read.
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Summary: Paul tells it like it is, with the credentials to back it up
Review: Wow. Paul Krugman has just become my new hero. I wish there was a way for every literate American to read this book, because I think it would change the way people see the current state of politics, and more importantly the current administration. I don't see how any educated person can refute the facts in this book, and it should make alot of people very, very angry. Krugman has a way of writing that is both articulate, honest, and intellectual that is a breath of fresh air from the bombastic, low-blow rhetoric that you see from many liberal (Al Franken) and Republican (Bill O'Reilley) writers these days. Kudos to Krugman!!
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Summary: The Left Wing Critics
Review: Isn't it interesting that the most positive of the critics of this God-awful book just parrot the negative reviews, substituting positives for the negatives. Could this be a measure of the intellectual capacities of the loony, left-wing critics. They also seem reluctant, or afraid, to identify themselves as friends or students of the former Enron advisor, now allegedly an instructor of economics at a university in New Jersey.
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Summary: The Right Wing Critics
Review: Isn't it interesting that the most negative of the critics of this excellent book just parrot the positive reviews, substituting negatives for the positives. Could this be a measure of the intellectual capacities of the critics. They also seem reluctant, or afraid, to identify themselves.
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Summary: The Great Unraveling
Review: Refreshing to read the simple truth...by a credible academic and fair-minded person. The thoughtful analysis and messages contained in this book are often marginalized into non-existence and therefore rarely reach our eyes or ears. A must read if you intend to vote intellegently in our next presidential election.
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Summary: What Paul Did On His Summer Vacation
Review: A spittle flecked decent into "hell"...perhaps better titled "Dubya's Inferno." Our guide has cobbled together our journey into Bush's hell from his New York Times columns of the last couple of years; replete with all the standard Krugman-of-the-Old-Gray-Lady fare. You know, statistical distortion, selective economic amnesia and, my personal favorite, the divination of the motives (always evil, white-devil-slavemaster-plutocrat-puppets) of his enemies du jour. In short Krugman has elevated his personal, and shifting, economic position above that of a few Nobel laureats, three of the most popular presidents in recent history and, most tellingly, the wisdom of the market (the invisible hand knows not, only Krugman knows). In all honesty, I got half-way through it when I realized I'd already read it all in the Times before. It really is a shame, Krugman is a genuinely bright guy. He could have made meaningful contributions to the economic dialogue in this country; instead he has used his perch at Princeton and the New York Times to take cheap political pot shots at the Bush administration. That said, if you don't read Krugman's column, you should read the book mostly as a compendium of the various points of attack on the Bush administration and for a few genuine points of vulnerability for the Bush administration. When you do, be certain to check in with the "Krugman Truth Squad" on National Review and loads of blogs devoted to exposing the Krugster's hyperbole, deception and selective omissions. If you read the Times regularly, not much new here. Why 2 stars? The content deserves a 1, but Krugman IS an entertaining character. As a polemicist he's quite good; and those are always worth reading, if only to pick up a good zinger or two. :)
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Summary: an observation
Review: Most one star reviews of almost every left wing book offered up on this site is by an angered conservative. If you take the time to read their reviews, they actually admit to not even reading the book they are reviewing!
The reviewers that may have read the book offer up age-old arguements as if they are accepted truth, and write the entire book off based on their violations of logic (poisioning the well the most common).
Like the current administration they defend, they offer us no other option but to submit to their opressive agenda or be destroyed. There is no middle ground offered on any review I have seen written by any conservative on any liberal book.
Not so for the converse... many left-wingers are offering fair and honest reviews - just read through some of them and see for yourself. They are not all rally-calls.
I reccomend this book because a very intelligent man put in real verifiable research. Some of the information is a left wing spin on those facts, but an intelligent reader with a thirst for the truth can form their own opinion and move on. This book does not necessarily promote independent though, however it doesn't discourage it either. You are not wrangeled into the authors one-way views, you are given the option to disagree and still continue reading.
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Summary: LEFT WING RESPONSE TELLS ALL
Review: The venom spitting left wing response to Krugman's book is the surest indicator that he is, in fact, nuttier than a fruit cake. Recent events continue to show that this administration has been right on just about everything, from war to tax cuts, in order to improve financial and physical security in this country. Krugman's main accomplishment is in showing us how the Left has screwed most things up historically and how they managed to get away with it for so long. I wish everyone in America could read this book.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Paul Krugman is a great writer and he is one of the few people in the mass media who is willing to tell the truth about the Bush administration. I find it interesting that the people who didn't like the book cannot make rational arguments disproving what Krugman says. They just insult him and say he taked too much medications. I seriously doubt that one reviewer went to Princeton. If they had, they would have been able to write a better review.
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