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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.490973
EAN: 9781933392790
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1933392797
Label: Chelsea Green Publishing
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 05, 2007
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Studio: Chelsea Green Publishing
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Editorial Review:
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 centurys 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 uswith the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paines revolutionary pamphletsthat 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 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - could have been a lot better
Not much more to say than what has already been said. Wolfe could have painted a more accurate picture by being a bit more objective and she put too much emphasis on Bush. Additionally the book (at least my copy) was poorly edited. I found numerous blatant typos and poor sentence structure. Unless the book was reprinted with these on purpose to discredit the ability of the author (conspiracy?) I would find a new editor for your next work. If you want to be scared then this book is a short easy ... Read More
Rating:  - Very interesting, though a tad unconvincing
By identifying ten steps in The End of America that all dictators and would-be dictators take in order to close down an open society, Naomi Wolf is able to argue convincingly that all ten of these steps are underway in the United States today. She argues convincingly that citizens need to rise up and challenge the powers that be to insure that our country as we know it isn't lost to us.
Is easily digestible chapters, Wolf compares the current political climate in the US with the conditions ... Read More
Rating:  - demise of the Republic
The Empire has won. The rebels were asleep. This primer is too little too late. The war-mongering engines of industrial capitalism will sweep away democracy any time any place. Oligarchy is the natural political system for primates; just look at the apes and baboons. The last vestiges of the American Republic were trodden down when the Supreme Court appointed GWB as our president at the turn of this millenium. Naomi's petition for patriots to act, alas, at this stage can be nothing more than a call for ... Read More
Rating:  - Sloppy Writing
I picked up this book, overall, with neutral expectations. I hadn't read anything by Wolf before but had read her reviews and general background information and was interested in her feminist points and strong left wing opinions.
While reading the book I was intrigued by the topic of the possibility of a "Soviet America" but was disappointed at it's execution. Put bluntly, I thought this paper could have been written by a college freshman. I felt like I was reading a long research paper where the ... Read More
Rating: - Saving America from Fascist shifts
"Most important book of my lifetime," say some who have joined in reading and discussing Naomi Wolf's "letter of warning." We've followed through by joining American Freedom Campaign http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org/ now supporting H.R.3835 to repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and make clear the checks and balances our US Constitution provides to stop the ten fascist shifts that Wolf documents are now underway in US government.
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