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How to Overthrow the Government
Powerful and enlightening. How to Overthrow the Government is an impassioned call to arms from one of America's sharpest and most independent commentators. In its pages Huffington breaks away from the party-line platitudes of Republicans and Democrats alike while challenging Amerians to rise up and take back their government. From the power of special interests to the rava...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
April 3rd 2001
by Harper Paperbacks
(first published 2000)
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I figured this would be anything but what the cover offers, and it was. It's really more of a "How to reform the government" but that's not an exciting cover. It had the predictable 95% problems to 5% possible solutions sort of mix, and really it's stuff that anyone with any sort of political adgenda could tell you. The hate againsts pollsters was a bit of fresh air though. I liked that this was pre 9/11 and as such had some older political information, but I guess that just means that it was fl...more
May 02, 2008
Carrie
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone
Recommended to Carrie by:
A drunken dude I met in a bar.
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This book was a great all around illustration of what is wrong with our political process. It was written pre election 2000 so it is excellent source to see just how far we've come. There is of course no reference to 9/11 and it is interesting to throw that in the mix as you use it to analyze our society.
Ms. Huffington is an excellent writer. She seems quite neutral in her views of parties, preferring rather to go for right over politically correct.
Two of my favorite quotes are:
"As Bob Dole so p...more
Ms. Huffington is an excellent writer. She seems quite neutral in her views of parties, preferring rather to go for right over politically correct.
Two of my favorite quotes are:
"As Bob Dole so p...more
As much as I love Arianna Huffington on Bill Maher, and as much as I respect her for her unrelenting pursuit of glasnost in American politics, I don't love her as a writer. She has that "lowest common denominator" style that is knee-jerk snarky, but lacking in any true wit or cleverness. Here's an example from page 30:
"After watching Clinton get away with untruth after untruth, many other public figures have also adopted Spin-glish as a second language. "I'm not a politician," said Elizabeth Do...more
"After watching Clinton get away with untruth after untruth, many other public figures have also adopted Spin-glish as a second language. "I'm not a politician," said Elizabeth Do...more
Jul 03, 2007
AJ Griffin
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who really think it's an instructional guide or something
Since Ms. Huffington speaks with an accent, she's obviously not an american. so what does she know, anyway?
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I have to give Huffington creditfor how she calls pout people in government. She does not care what side of the aisle a person is on, if they are doing something they shouldn't or doing something they should for that matter, she spits it out for everyone to see. She does not care too much about ruffling feathers. That's refreshingly obvious. Will it change anything? Probably not. Things won't change until such time that we reach critical mass as a nation and collectively throw ourselves on the w...more
I like her, she's interesting and smart so I picked up the book, it is what it is... nothing to write home about...nothing in it really jumped out at me worth going into.
Interesting discussion of politics circa 1999. Unfortunetly its becoming dated very fast.
Apr 11, 2011
Nico Our Lady of the Sacred Bonechuck
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boring people
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Whoa, couldn't even get half way through. Outdated, boring political blather. The End.
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Arianna Huffington (born Arianna Stassinopoulos) is an author and nationally syndicated columnist in the United States.
Huffington describes herself as a "former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist". She is the founder of The Huffington Post, a liberal online news and commentary website and aggregated blog.
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Huffington describes herself as a "former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist". She is the founder of The Huffington Post, a liberal online news and commentary website and aggregated blog.
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