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The End of America | 
 enlarge | Author: Naomi Wolf
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: EBooks
List Price: $13.95
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Rating:  200 reviews
Sales Rank: 1704
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.490973
ASIN: B000YQUMJE
Publication Date: November 12, 2007
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Product Description
In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century's worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties. In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paines revolutionary pamphlets that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom. Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all tend to take very similar, parallel steps. The Founders of this nation were so deeply familiar with tyranny and the habits and practices of tyrants that they set up our checks and balances precisely out of fear of what is unfolding today. We are seeing these same kinds of tactics now closing down freedoms in America, turning our nation into something that in the near future could be quite other than the open society in which we grew up and learned to love liberty, states Wolf. Wolf is taking her message directly to the American people in the most accessible form and as part of a large national campaign to reach out to ordinary Americans about the dangers we face today. This includes a lecture and speaking tour, and being part of the nascent American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots effort to ensure that presidential candidates pledge to uphold the constitution and protect our liberties from further erosion. The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivatespurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriotsto save our liberty and defend our nation.
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 Great book given as gift January 6, 2009
C. Crussiah (Washington, DC)
Book was given as a gift after I heard about it on NPR. The recipient loved it!!
 Polarizing Commentary December 29, 2008
N. Adams (Eastern Washington)
I found this book incredibly frustrating. If she had continued with her original premise, that of comparing the current political climate to the history of fascism, I am certain there would be areas of disagreement, but at least it would be a respectful discourse. Instead, the Bush-bashing just got in the way of what could have yielded a very interesting discussion amongst Americans. While a conservative, I would not consider myself either a Bush supporter or cynic. Instead, I educate myself on the issues and apply them to my own moral compass. However, the very left wing rhetoric applied here just was too much. It's the same reason that I don't read Ann Coulter. Real and productive discourse is lost when mired in over-polarizing commentary. Which is unfortunate, because I think she did have an excellent premise with relation to "returning our country to a stewardship of our founder's vision." br /
Worthless December 27, 2008
_porterhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
American professors, in the main, have elevated anti-intellectualism to high virtue; they sneer, in fact, at true academic inquiry. Their presence and efforts have cheapened and debased, if not destroyed, the academy. br / br /The masses who glom together to create the American and European left are perhaps the most ignorant and self-deluded folk the civilized world has had to tolerate and absorb. They stand as testament to what happens when a generation or two takes it easy and declines to do the heavy lifting required to confer knowledge and wisdom. These people's parents failed them miserably. br / br /And this book is one tract among a disgraceful pile written by ignorant propagandists for the functionally illiterate. br / br /It is a screaming irony that the book is entitled "The End of America" and is designed to be visually reminiscent of works by people who understood the subject matter of which they wrote. That this book found a publisher is itself the most convincing evidence of the aforementioned "End". If the nation's universities were not governed by morons and if the populace were capable of understanding the principles being discussed, this "book" would be nothing but a screed scratched into the boards comprising a shack in the woods by a pathetic, insane person. In substance, it is nothing more than that anyway. br / br /
More of the Same December 23, 2008
D. Cavanaugh (San Diego)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ms. Wolf's book opens with the nightmarish idea that the Republican party may have attempted in the past eight years to build a permanent majority of Republican voters.(Shudder) br / br /What does she think that Obama did in the past election? He bought the votes of the lower classes with promises of handing out free money confiscated from the "rich". If he has a successful presidency in this regard he will have bought the votes of these people for decades to come. br / br /Building a majority based on ideas and shared beliefs is not vice. Building a majority by promising big screen TVs is a horror. Obama is her guy, and this book is a sham from the first page. br / br /
Bloviations on a Theme December 10, 2008
Buckley Jones (Some Texas)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
A progressively excremental work that works the margin of fear and misquotes from the founding fathers to formulate a leftist conspiracy theory.
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