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Title: Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies by Nicholas Von Hoffman ISBN: 1-56025-582-X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tells it Like it is
Comment: This is one person's look at life in present-day America. The author feels that America is inside a 3000-mile wide terrarium, cut off from the rest of the world. This would explain that by the time of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the difference in world view between America and the rest of the world grew to the size of the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole.
During the Nazi era, the Big Lie was simple and repeated over and over again until it became the equivalent of inescapable sound. For whatever reason, George Bush was not a good liar. He and his advisers made the mistake of elaborating, retracting and adding on to the reasons for attacking Iraq. The rest of the world must have been laughing when the Bush Administration came up with one more reason for invasion. The American people believed them, as they generally do when their government and television tell them something. Another rule to keeping things simple is to not offer any evidence, so there can be no refutation. The supposed warehouses full of evidence turned out to be nothing.
Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has believed that it is a "city on a hill," a feeling of "we are right and you are wrong." Since Providence has chosen America to work through human history, anyone already occupying the continent could justifiably be removed or killed.
The first lines of the National Anthem contain the roots of flagolatry, or excessive reverence for the national symbol. Democracies are always right, America is a democracy, so America is always right. Since America is the best democracy, it is more right than the others. Inside the terrarium called America, Arabs don't exist and nobody has heard of them. Arabs are considered non-people with a non-claim to nothing. Americans go on and on about being the greatest country in the world with an almost neurotic need for praise from outside the biosphere. Americans also have rabbit ears for criticism from outside, but the voice of reason just bounces off the glass.
This is a Wow of a book. I'm not sure if I have ever read a book quite like this. It's rare when an American can look at this country the way foreigners (probably) do. It is very highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book
Comment: I was looking for something interesting to read this summer and saw this one in the current affairs section of my bookstore. I picked it up and have been enjoying it tremendously. Von Hoffman is so funny and so correct in his analysis of the present sickness which inflicts American society. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for truth, justice and the (real promise of the) American way.
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: What's the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank ISBN: 0805073396 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by Jim Mann, James Mann ISBN: 0670032999 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America by Eric Alterman, Mark Green, Mark J. Green ISBN: 0670032735 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies by JAMES BAMFORD ISBN: 0385506724 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 08 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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