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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot | 
| Author: Naomi Wolf
Publisher: Amazon
Category: Book
Buy New: $0.49
Rating:  200 reviews
Sales Rank: 305800
Media: Digital
Pages: 27
ASIN: B000YMG8SC
Publication Date: November 9, 2007
Availability: Available for download now
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Product Description
In my travels across the country, I have heard from citizens of all backgrounds who feel alienated from the Founders' idea that they are the ones who must lead; they are the ones who must decide and confront and draw a line. They are the ones who matter. This book is written for them. Such citizens need the keys to, the understanding of, the Founders' radical legacy. They need to understand how despots have gone about their work. They need a primer so they and those around them can be well-equipped for the fight that lies ahead.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 195 more reviews...
 Great book given as gift January 6, 2009
C. Crussiah (Washington, DC)
Book was given as a gift after I heard about it on NPR. The recipient loved it!!
 Polarizing Commentary December 29, 2008
N. Adams (Eastern Washington)
I found this book incredibly frustrating. If she had continued with her original premise, that of comparing the current political climate to the history of fascism, I am certain there would be areas of disagreement, but at least it would be a respectful discourse. Instead, the Bush-bashing just got in the way of what could have yielded a very interesting discussion amongst Americans. While a conservative, I would not consider myself either a Bush supporter or cynic. Instead, I educate myself on the issues and apply them to my own moral compass. However, the very left wing rhetoric applied here just was too much. It's the same reason that I don't read Ann Coulter. Real and productive discourse is lost when mired in over-polarizing commentary. Which is unfortunate, because I think she did have an excellent premise with relation to "returning our country to a stewardship of our founder's vision."
Worthless December 27, 2008
_porterhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
American professors, in the main, have elevated anti-intellectualism to high virtue; they sneer, in fact, at true academic inquiry. Their presence and efforts have cheapened and debased, if not destroyed, the academy.
The masses who glom together to create the American and European left are perhaps the most ignorant and self-deluded folk the civilized world has had to tolerate and absorb. They stand as testament to what happens when a generation or two takes it easy and declines to do the heavy lifting required to confer knowledge and wisdom. These people's parents failed them miserably.
And this book is one tract among a disgraceful pile written by ignorant propagandists for the functionally illiterate.
It is a screaming irony that the book is entitled "The End of America" and is designed to be visually reminiscent of works by people who understood the subject matter of which they wrote. That this book found a publisher is itself the most convincing evidence of the aforementioned "End". If the nation's universities were not governed by morons and if the populace were capable of understanding the principles being discussed, this "book" would be nothing but a screed scratched into the boards comprising a shack in the woods by a pathetic, insane person. In substance, it is nothing more than that anyway.
More of the Same December 23, 2008
D. Cavanaugh (San Diego)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ms. Wolf's book opens with the nightmarish idea that the Republican party may have attempted in the past eight years to build a permanent majority of Republican voters.(Shudder)
What does she think that Obama did in the past election? He bought the votes of the lower classes with promises of handing out free money confiscated from the "rich". If he has a successful presidency in this regard he will have bought the votes of these people for decades to come.
Building a majority based on ideas and shared beliefs is not vice. Building a majority by promising big screen TVs is a horror. Obama is her guy, and this book is a sham from the first page.
Bloviations on a Theme December 10, 2008
Buckley Jones (Some Texas)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
A progressively excremental work that works the margin of fear and misquotes from the founding fathers to formulate a leftist conspiracy theory.
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