false 503432 8 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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />&#147;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,&#148; states Wolf.<br />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.<br /><i>The End of America</i> 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. 491492 5 9 2007 The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot total:754|5:275|4:290|3:146|2:33|1:10| 754 3049 1441 242 5 6 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 20:43:43 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 21:12:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 05:49:39 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 05:54:33 -0800 2008

What Naomi Wolf sees in the current state of affairs in America is a "fascist shift" - a subtle (and not so subtle) erosion of our Constitutional Democracy in the post 9/11 reality of perpetual global war. It i...more...]]> 5 3 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 20:38:24 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 20:46:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 00:36:44 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 20:31:31 -0800 2008
Other reviewers here have covered the det...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue May 27 06:29:40 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 13:54:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Oct 25 08:41:52 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 15:53:22 -0700 2007
The first couple of chapters scared the hell out of me. If this is ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 22 16:31:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 10:03:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 16:31:55 -0700 2009 1
By 'dishonest' I mean the following:

- While many excellent examples of how previous pseudo-democratic societies have been subverted are given, very little evidence is shown ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 17 22:41:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 21:53:32 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 22:41:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 24 13:15:38 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:15:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 16:02:39 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 05:20:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 11:31:37 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 11:31:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 02 18:21:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 11:01:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 24 21:08:11 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 21:36:56 -0700 2008 4 2 false false Mon Dec 31 16:47:51 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 02 15:57:06 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:25:21 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:58:21 -0800 2008 1 It was a chilling read because I realized to what extent I'd been asleep. I take my freedoms in this country far too muc...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 10 07:44:04 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 25 03:48:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 20:29:30 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 20:30:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 19:27:39 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 21:03:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:29:05 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 11:15:43 -0700 2008
It was evident that this lady was a true patriot with a message to convey.

This book is not complicated it is straight talk.

The author took a real humanistic approach to communicat...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 29 19:11:15 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 08 13:53:33 -0700 2008 more...]]>