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Title: The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America by William Rivers Pitt ISBN: 0-7453-2010-4 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 21 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rising Star
Comment: From the website: http://www.ragingliberal.org
William Rivers Pitt is the kind of person who surprises you. Not only is he one of the more eloquent representatives of the left, and one of the most prolific commentators on the internet (he helped to co-found truthout.org), but he's also an English Literature teacher at a Boston public high school, and he's only 30 years old. Having that in the back of your mind as you read The Greatest Sedition is Silence: Four Years in America merely adds to his credibility as a rising star in the ranks of liberal dissenters.
The book itself, while relatively brief, centers on opposition to the policy directives of the Bush administration, with particular regard to foreign policy in Latin America and the Middle East, but you can find that kind of discussion in a number of books available today. What makes Pitt's work different is the way he approaches his dissent, and the message he attempts to deliver with it. Political pundits seldom use references to Rudyard Kipling and Shakespeare amidst the finer details of liberalism. Add to that the fact that the author is young, and a teacher, and you have for a refreshing combination.
In the book, you'll find detailed discussions about Iraq, and when the decision to wage war was reached, some of the failures of 9/11 intelligence, and details American involvement in Venezuela and the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez. But more interestingly, and more startling, is the assertion by the author that the American experiment in democracy is largely over; that somewhere in the politics of corruption over the past twenty-five years, we reached a critical mass in which the vestiges of the democratic process have withered on the vine.
It's not a hopeless message. He doesn't argue that the major principles of our system are irretrievable, or that a peaceful, popular revolution within our current system is no longer possible. I simply hadn't heard anyone convincingly portray American democracy as being in such critical condition, at least not in such direct terms as Pitt.
There's certainly no shortage of books being released that are critical of the direction our country is going. Al Franken and Michael Moore are great for comic relief and the occasional good point when it comes to bashing Bush and friends, but it's men like Pitt who, I find, really have something to say.
Rating: 5
Summary: Honest, Insightful Assessment of the Mess We're In Today
Comment: I am only halfway through this book and with each page my heart sinks further. For the last fews years, I've closely followed the news in the American and International media and Mr. Pitt's book only confirmed my analyses and the conclusions I'd drawn.
This is no time for citizens to rest, comfortable in the knowledge that we live in a Democracy. Our Democratic rights are being stripped away daily- right under our very noses but unnoticed. This book is a must read! As you read it, ask yourself if it doesn't explain why we are fast becoming a Pariah nation and losing all moral authority we ever had on the international scene.
Kudo's to Mr. Pitt for his excellent book!
Rating: 5
Summary: reviewing a bogus reviewer
Comment: The 5-star rating is a supposition that this book is excellent - haven't read it. However, I did read the "bartcop from tulsa" review - someone has taken his name in vain. b/c is too busy to read books what with a daily rant and daily radio show, but were he to read the book, he would rate it the same as I - 5 star, I'm sure. He is as repulsed by the current Washington regime as am I, and as are all thoughtful people.
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Title: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know by William Rivers Pitt, Scott Ritter ISBN: 1893956385 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: 25 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back by Jim Hightower ISBN: 0670031410 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by DAVID CORN ISBN: 1400050669 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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