Infuriating and enlightening
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Polemic? Yes. Turgid? Absolutely not! This isn't a book you would anticipate sitting down to at the airport, or reading whilst lying down at the beach sunning yourself. It doesn't tackle light and easy subjects, it addresses the very basis of the American constitution and why that is currently being subverted, so inevitably it isn't a page turner. It needs to be read at a measured pace, but is not difficult to read. In reading it though and for those of us who are relatively ignorant on the subject, it provides an excellent insight into the fundamentals of the American polity, the approach taken by the Founders of the US to ensure a degree of rationality and reason and fairness in US government and also to try to safeguard this framework from the efforts of those who might wish to subvert it.
Whilst in hindsight it might be obvious, but this book has made it clear to me how unpatriotic Dubya and his pals are, how everything they are doing runs counter to the Founders' aims and is not with a view to ensuring the primacy of the US Constitution but with a view to ensuring self-interest and to hell with the rest. So in that sense it is infuriating, it does amaze me and does make me wonder how a nation with such a strong foundation in democracy (seen in the aims of the aims of it's Founding Fathers) can allow itself to be so betrayed by those in power.
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Very informative and well researched
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I can't disagree more with what the reviewer wrote below. This book is very informative and well researched - if you don't agree with what it says than research the facts yourself to see if they are the truth and then complain.
The problem I had with this book was that is was little convoluted when far more straight forward language could have been used. Saying that, Al Gore gives a very good summing of what is so wrong with modern day politics and Media - especially in the United States.
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What a load of ********
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What a turgid polemic this is
It is about time that A.G. realised that he, and others like him, ARE the problem
It just shows how bored I was that I wasted two hours reading this book
(Poly = Many, Tics = Bloodsuckers)
P.S. I'm glad that I only borrowed this book rather than buy it!
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