On 2010-02-14 K. Olson, San Francisco, CA United States wrote: I´ve always been impressed with Naomi Wolf´s skill at documenting social and political trends. She deftly joins the pieces of the puzzle together, using specific examples (backed up with copious research) to show us the Big Picture.
In this book, Wolf details how the Bush administration is methodically dismantling our democracy and unraveling our Constitution. She outlines 10 steps that the administration is undertaking--from surveiling citizens groups to restricting the press--that have also been taken by governments that ultimately became fascist regimes, such as Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. It´s chilling how even the rationalizations used by Bush are the same as those used by fascist heads of state. This is an important book that everyone should read.
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Chelsea Green Publishing claimed Winner of the 2008 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD in the category of Social Change/ActivismIn 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 Paine‚’s 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 efforts 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 motivate‚–spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots‚–to save our liberty and defend our nation.
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