Best Libertarianism
If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be” – NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. “ Democracy in Chains leaves me with hope: Perhaps as books like MacLean’s continue to shine a light on important truths, Americans will begin to realize they need to pay more attention and not succumb to the cynical view that known liars make the best leaders." “A remarkable new book which argues that the radical right revolution engineered by Charles and his brother David is not just about accruing political and economic power, but about restricting democracy itself.” —The New Republic. [MacLean] has dug deep into her material—not just Buchanan’s voluminous, unsorted papers, but other archives, too—and she has made powerful and disturbing use of it all. What we think of as dysfunction is the result of years of strategic effort.” —The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains . To read Nancy MacLean’s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America , is to see what was previously invisible." “[A] riveting, unsettling account of 'Tennessee country boy' James McGill Buchanan, key architect of today's radical right.” —O, The Oprah Magazine. James McGill Buchanan merged states rights’ thinking with free market principles and helped to fashion the inherently elitist ideology of today’s Republican Party. Professor MacLean’s meticulous research and shrewd insights make this a must-read for all who believe in government ‘by the people.’”. — Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. In clear prose, MacLean reveals how a public once committed to social responsibility and egalitarian values became persuaded that only an unregulated free market could protect ‘liberty’ and ‘choice.’ Because of this, our once cherished democracy is now subject to attack. Everyone who wants to understand today’s confrontational politics should read this important book, now.”. — Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America. [she] offers a cogent yet disturbing analysis of libertarians' current efforts to rewrite the social contract and manipulate citizens' beliefs. "MacLean constructs an erudite searing portrait of how the late political economist James McGill Buchanan (1919 - 2013) and his deep-pocketed conservative allies have reshaped --and undermined--American democracy. A thoroughly researched and gripping narrative, she exposes how Buchanan’s strategies shaped trends in government in favor of “corporate dominance” and against the welfare state. “For those who think the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, and the alt-right are recent constructs, MacLean provides an extensive history lesson that traces the genesis of the right wing back to post-WWII doctrines. A worthy companion to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money , MacLean’s intense and extensive examination of the right-wing’s rise to power is perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” —Booklist (starred review).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Let me get down to the nub of what is already the most significant dispute between MacLean's critics and her defenders (bracketing the substantial portion of her critics whose one-line reviews betray that they clearly haven't read the book): MacLean's argument is based on a careful and detailed juxtaposition of the rationales adopted by libertarians in the 1950s and 1960s, and the concrete social and political context raging around them at the time (most crucially, the resistance to court-mandated de-segregation). One of the most fascinating and enduring lessons of MacLean's book is that the relationship between libertarianism and conservatism is vexed and far from inevitable--as are the relationships of either of these to Republicanism, states rights theory, or religious activism."
"This is a brilliant book, a true history assembled from archival discovery and written with verve."
"Read Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. The current takeover of our country was organized in Virginia by white supremacists who opposed the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racially separate schools cannot be equal. Success today includes such cuts in tax funds that college students carry unbearable student loan debts, tax money goes more and more to private schools like the segregation academies of the fifties and sixties, and an avowed enemy of public education is now the U. S. Secretary of Education. Jesus was mistaken , they published: The Good Samaritan was wrong because helping those who are down and out merely created "parasites" who would exploit those with wealth rather than earn their own way. As articulated by David Stockman, President Reagan's' budget director, they would have to fight "Social Security recipients, veterans, farmers, educators, state and local officials, [and] the housing industry" whose middle class buyers relied on mortgage tax deductions. Unable to finance their massive tax cuts and military spending, the president "forsook the fact-based universe." The Kemp-Roth bill slashed taxes on the wealthiest but tripled the national debt so that by 1989 it amounted to 53 percent of gross domestic product. Stealth methods included "counterintelligentsia" deployed in universities, "think tanks", newspaper and magazine and radio and television, and more recently, in social media to portray government as the enemy, social security and Medicare as "bankrupt", environmentalists as dangerous (See War on Coal!"
"This book describes the philosophy of John C Calhoun back in the 1830s and 40s."
"Brilliant, important book, warning us of the danger the Koch brothers pose for the future."
"This illuminating book is required reading to understand the infusion of radical libertarian thought and corporate wealth in our current politics."
"It is essential reading for all interested in the modern U.S. and its political economy."
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America’s most respected and cited authors. “My hope is that this large selection of my writings will reduce the likelihood that readers will misunderstand what I have said on many controversial issues over the years. He has published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investors Business Daily , and Fortune , and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a collection of short articles that Dr. Sowell wrote, I believe for publication in various news media."
"There are hundreds of short passages in this book about social, racial, and historical issues that plaque our country today."
"Thomas Sowell accumulated a lifetime's worth of writings and compiled them in the Thomas Sowell Reader. For Thomas Sowell fans, this is a treasure trove of brilliant essays on all imaginable topics."
"I highly recommend his books to anyone who wants to know how the world works."
"It is therefore a good jumping off point to get an overall perspective of the author, and hopefully lead you on to his great body of work."
"If you haven't read Mr. Sowell before, then this is the book to start with."
"If more voters read Mr. Sowell's works we would demand more than nice sounding platitudes from our elected representatives... we would judge them by their results, not just their flowery promises."
"In Patterns of Failure, for instance, Sowell identifies four stages associated with well-intentioned social programs--such as plans to vanquish poverty, reduce teenage pregnancy or fix the criminal justice system--that end up making matters much worse."
If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be” – NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. “ Democracy in Chains leaves me with hope: Perhaps as books like MacLean’s continue to shine a light on important truths, Americans will begin to realize they need to pay more attention and not succumb to the cynical view that known liars make the best leaders." The behind-the-scenes days and works of Buchanan show how much deliberation and persistence—in the face of formidable opposition—underlie the antigoverning politics ascendant today. What we think of as dysfunction is the result of years of strategic effort.” —The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains . To read Nancy MacLean’s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America , is to see what was previously invisible." “[A] riveting, unsettling account of 'Tennessee country boy' James McGill Buchanan, key architect of today's radical right.” —O, The Oprah Magazine. James McGill Buchanan merged states rights’ thinking with free market principles and helped to fashion the inherently elitist ideology of today’s Republican Party. Professor MacLean’s meticulous research and shrewd insights make this a must-read for all who believe in government ‘by the people.’”. — Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. In clear prose, MacLean reveals how a public once committed to social responsibility and egalitarian values became persuaded that only an unregulated free market could protect ‘liberty’ and ‘choice.’ Because of this, our once cherished democracy is now subject to attack. Everyone who wants to understand today’s confrontational politics should read this important book, now.”. — Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America. [she] offers a cogent yet disturbing analysis of libertarians' current efforts to rewrite the social contract and manipulate citizens' beliefs. "MacLean constructs an erudite searing portrait of how the late political economist James McGill Buchanan (1919 - 2013) and his deep-pocketed conservative allies have reshaped --and undermined--American democracy. A thoroughly researched and gripping narrative, she exposes how Buchanan’s strategies shaped trends in government in favor of “corporate dominance” and against the welfare state. “For those who think the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, and the alt-right are recent constructs, MacLean provides an extensive history lesson that traces the genesis of the right wing back to post-WWII doctrines. A worthy companion to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money , MacLean’s intense and extensive examination of the right-wing’s rise to power is perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” —Booklist (starred review). Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York Times "noteworthy" book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough , which was called by the Chicago Tribune “contemporary history at its best.”. The William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Let me get down to the nub of what is already the most significant dispute between MacLean's critics and her defenders (bracketing the substantial portion of her critics whose one-line reviews betray that they clearly haven't read the book): MacLean's argument is based on a careful and detailed juxtaposition of the rationales adopted by libertarians in the 1950s and 1960s, and the concrete social and political context raging around them at the time (most crucially, the resistance to court-mandated de-segregation). One of the most fascinating and enduring lessons of MacLean's book is that the relationship between libertarianism and conservatism is vexed and far from inevitable--as are the relationships of either of these to Republicanism, states rights theory, or religious activism."
"This is a brilliant book, a true history assembled from archival discovery and written with verve."
"Read Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. The current takeover of our country was organized in Virginia by white supremacists who opposed the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racially separate schools cannot be equal. Success today includes such cuts in tax funds that college students carry unbearable student loan debts, tax money goes more and more to private schools like the segregation academies of the fifties and sixties, and an avowed enemy of public education is now the U. S. Secretary of Education. Jesus was mistaken , they published: The Good Samaritan was wrong because helping those who are down and out merely created "parasites" who would exploit those with wealth rather than earn their own way. As articulated by David Stockman, President Reagan's' budget director, they would have to fight "Social Security recipients, veterans, farmers, educators, state and local officials, [and] the housing industry" whose middle class buyers relied on mortgage tax deductions. Unable to finance their massive tax cuts and military spending, the president "forsook the fact-based universe." The Kemp-Roth bill slashed taxes on the wealthiest but tripled the national debt so that by 1989 it amounted to 53 percent of gross domestic product. Stealth methods included "counterintelligentsia" deployed in universities, "think tanks", newspaper and magazine and radio and television, and more recently, in social media to portray government as the enemy, social security and Medicare as "bankrupt", environmentalists as dangerous (See War on Coal!"
"This book describes the philosophy of John C Calhoun back in the 1830s and 40s."
"Brilliant, important book, warning us of the danger the Koch brothers pose for the future."
"This illuminating book is required reading to understand the infusion of radical libertarian thought and corporate wealth in our current politics."
"It is essential reading for all interested in the modern U.S. and its political economy."
Best Nationalism
She unmasks the opposition, forecasts the future of the Make America Great Again agenda and offers her own prescriptions for bringing real change to the swamp of Washington. With sharp humor and insight she traces the DNA of the populist movement: from Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, to Nixon’s Silent Majority, to Reagan’s smashing electoral victories. Laura Ingraham is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Obama Diaries, Power to the People, Shut Up & Sing , and Of Thee I Zing .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Conservative populists tend to support a policy of economic nationalism --- people-centered economic policies that put the nation and its workers first….They also believe high taxes are bad because they sap workers’ wages and economic freedom. She shows how Reagan and Trump identify instinctively with middle class America by supporting our agendas, not the Establishment’s: ======. Reagan. “Our nation’s capital has become the seat of a ‘buddy’ system that functions for its own benefit—increasingly insensitive to the needs of the American worker who supports it with his taxes.”. Trump: “My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. The Free Trade Mavens told us: “We must pass {NAFTA-WITH-MEXICO, GATT-WITH-CHINA, TPP} because these ‘free trade’ agreements will create millions of high-paying jobs for American workers. American workers DESERVE the opportunity to work making products to export to other countries.”. Then we discovered that American companies rarely ever use free trade agreements to export American-made products to other countries. Then they slander the American workers whose jobs they stole: “American workers are lazy, maleducated, and stupid. Like Ms. Ingraham, I've begun to understand that the Republican and Democratic party establishments have been brainwashed by corporation money into believing that it’s a good thing when Americans lose their jobs to predatory foreign trade, and that America’s legacy population should be dis-employed, encouraged to die early, and be replaced with a tidal wave of foreigners. In November, 2013, I predicted that Donald Trump would rise to lead a reincarnated Republican Party: =====. Mr. Trump occupies an important place in the political spectrum --- that of being a Republican Populist. We know what doesn’t work: global trade deals that enrich other countries at the expense of our own workers; lax immigration policies that compromise the nation’s security, health care system, schools, and jobs; a tax and regulatory regime that stifles economic growth and competitiveness, and strangles innovation; and an imprudent interventionist foreign policy that costs us trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives. The resulting economic and personal pain, felt across the vast American landscape, has fueled the rise of populism and its stalwarts—from Goldwater to Reagan, Buchanan to Trump. Let’s “primary” these people out of Congress whenever we can, and replace them with younger, more Conservative Populist people whose apron strings aren’t pulled by multinational corporations who believe that they prosper by putting Americans out of work, and repopulating the country with illegal aliens."
"This book is a home run for persons that truly want to follow the events and policies that created where the country is today."
"Thank you Ms Ingraham for your work, your courage and your patriotism!"
"Readable, detailed, logical, and informative without being screechy."
"Often I can't adequately express how I am feeling in relation to Trump and what is going on today in politics."
"Super book by a super person, easy reading."
"This book is written in a style that is straight forward and informative."
"My first book by Laura Ingraham and I'm very pleased."
Best Anarchism
Well, it's now in its 29th printing since 1971, has chapters on home preparation of weapons, electronics, drugs, and explosives.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I wonder what government watch list i just got on by ordering it?"
"Exactly as limited as the reviews say, but still an enjoyable tool."
"this book is quite outdated, possibly illegal in your state - and sometimes quite hilarious."
"Hey, its the cookbook, what else can you say."
"As most overblown books from the media this book is just ok more of a guide and an old guide, but as stated before to many crazies out there so even with this guide, they will still figure something out."
"When I opened the package, I was stunned to find this edition about 1/3 as thick as the original."
"This was listed as the 1971 edition and what arrived was the 2012."
"This is not the original."
Best Fascism
To cover up their insidious fascist agenda, Democrats loudly accuse President Trump and other Republicans of being Nazis—an obvious lie, considering the GOP has been fighting the Democrats over slavery, genocide, racism and fascism from the beginning. He expertly exonerates President Trump and his supporters, then uncovers the Democratic Left's long, cozy relationship with Nazism: how the racist and genocidal acts of early Democrats inspired Adolf Hitler's campaign of death; how fascist philosophers influenced the great 20th century lions of the American Left; and how today's anti-free speech, anti-capitalist, anti-religious liberty, pro-violence Democratic Party is a frightening simulacrum of the Nazi Party. In The Big Lie , D'Souza shows that the Democratic Left's orchestrated campaign to paint President Trump and conservatives as Nazis to cover up its own fascism is, in fact, the biggest lie of all. His other best-selling books include Obama's America , The Roots of Obama's Rage , What's So Great About America , What's So Great About Christianity , Life After Death , and Illiberal Education .
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It is a slow process to convert a country, like the United States, into a socialist country, but if Hillary Clinton would have won, the United States and its citizens would have entered an era in which most of us would be through harder times than when Barack Obama was the president. They were a free country before Hugo Chavez became president and the middle class does not exist anymore and the rich people has left the country."
"The same is true for segregation. D'Souza's polemical strategy seems to be that when people point to American racism, Americans should point to the Democrat party, which is, after all, the only institution that supported slavery that remains, particularly in an age when Confederate statues are torn down. The difference between Fascism and Communism was that Fascism made the nation primary, whereas Communism made social class primary. The two approaches to Socialism diverged as a result of World War I when Mussolini, among others, saw how nationalism trumped social class. The result has been massive protests by Americans who feel that their cherished symbols of national pride have been insulted. D'Souza also discusses the "repressive tolerance" of Herbert Marcuse, whose writing seem to anticipate the hypocritical, psychotic time we are living through where the forces of tolerance are the most intolerant. There’s even precedent for the approach I’m discussing. During the Civil War Lincoln learned that Confederate soldiers were killing captured black federal troops or selling them into slavery rather than treating them as lawful prisoners of war. It said, “It is therefore ordered that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the laws of war, a rebel soldier shall be executed, and for every one enslaved by the enemy or sold into slavery, a rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labor on the public works.”9. Despite the evident harshness of his order, Lincoln knew this was the only way to change Confederate behavior. But that was wartime, and, upon reflection, we’re in a different situation. We’re the party that fought a great war to end slavery, fought lynching and segregation, shut down the Ku Klux Klan, opposed eugenics and forced sterilization, and resisted the incipient fascism of the street thugs in the 1960s. In the words of that slogan from the 1960s, “If not now, when?"
"Today’s euthanasia movement; the abortion movement; the political racial spoils system (i.e., “affirmative action); gun control policies; the secularization of society via the courts; ... all of these are the same rotten fruit from the poisonous tree that is known as American Progressivism which openly and wholeheartedly shared its plans, ideas and strategies with then up and coming fascist movements in Europe in the early 20th Century."
"D'Souza firmly established what a simple glimpse at Mousalini's past suggests: Fascism comes from the Left."
Best Political Conservatism & Liberalism
The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. ''Fat people will hate this book.''.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As an information professional I have always been very interested in intellectual freedom issues and am a card carrying member of the Freedom to Read Foundation so as soon as my industry colleagues began to tell me how dangerous Dangerous would be, I knew I had to read it as soon as possible. I emailed my old Intellectual Freedom & Censorship professor from grad school about the cancellation and her response was that Milo already had a platform so it's not the same type of insidious censorship. It is important to be mindful that censorship can come from both the political right and the political left. It seemed a bit ironic to me that all these alleged advocates of free speech were refusing to get a book called Dangerous because it would be too dangerous for people to read. Milo was more invigorating to read than Trump, probably because he is by trade a professional word slinging journalist. I'm not saying I agree with literally all the things Milo Yiannopoulos says or stands for but that doesn't matter. Dangerous is a decent book and censorship is dangerous."
"I pre-ordered the book out of curiosity, there was so much controversy when Simon and Schuster cancelled the book deal."
"As a gay man who has seen not just the gay rights movement but the entire progressive movement hijacked by Marxist regressives, Milo is and has always been a breath of fresh air. Milo comes back from a takedown that would have left most people in hiding."
"You don't have to like who he is, you might not like the way he looks or speaks or expresses his thoughts, but what he stands for is EVERYTHING that we are slowly losing as the media outlets take control of manipulating everything we see and hear."
"It is extraordinarily funny, and gets the modern conservative viewpoint across in a way that stereotypical stuffy conservatives can only imagine. While I have tried my best to encourage free-thinking in her impressionable young mind, the mindset in her public school has her believing all sorts of PC based nonsense. I asked for specific examples, but they have thus far been unable or unwilling to give examples."
"Milo is absolutely correct in the following excerpt from "Dangerous". "In short, I’m the Left’s worst nightmare: a living, breathing refutation of identity politics, and proof that free speech and the truth wrapped in a good joke will always be more persuasive and more powerful than identity politics.""
Best Communism & Socialism
Learn the subtle editing, arrangement, and monitoring tactics which give industry insiders their competitive edge, and master the psychological tricks which protect you from all the biggest rookie mistakes. Pick up tricks and tips from leading-edge engineers working on today's multi-platinum hits, including Michael Brauer, Serban Ghenea, the Lord-Alge brothers, Tony Maserati, Manny Marroquin, Dave "Hard Drive" Pensado, Jack Joseph Puig, Mark "Spike" Stent, Phil Tan, Andy Wallace, and many, many more . Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Mike Senior on Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio , "The 'Why The Hell' Challenge". In all these cases I've started with real-world small-studio recordings and used widely available mass-market technology to remix it to a commercial level, all without ever setting foot inside a "real" studio. If you want that kind of transformation for your music, then you can find a detailed explanation of my method in Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio . The second reason you might want to take notice of these mixing techniques, though, is that they've been drawn not only from my own professional experience, but also from more than four million words of first-hand interviews with the highest-profile engineers and producers on the planet. Amongst many other things in Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio , I try to deliver a stout kicking to the following questionable (but surprisingly pervasive) pieces of received wisdom: Indeed, the two most celebrated mixing speakers of all time, the Yamaha NS10 and the Auratone 5C Super Sound Cube, both have extremely uneven frequency-response plots, but excellent time-domain performance. Those common experiences are just the tip of the iceberg, and it's only by learning to work around the fickleness of your own hearing that you can begin to get decent mix results reliably. Corrective processing can certainly produce unmusical results, but it's important to realize that it doesn't have to, even if you're just using the editing facilities built into your software DAW. Furthermore, almost every small-studio production I've worked on sounded more musical (and became a lot easier to mix) once careful timing and tuning correction had been applied. In that case, it's much better to start with those while your ears are fresh, and while you've still got lots of mix real estate and computer CPU power to play with. In fact, a lot of the established classic reverb units sound pretty unnatural (the AMS RMX16, say, or the EMT 140 plate), but that doesn't stop them from appearing all over the current charts. I call this the "silver bullet" myth--that comforting delusion that the only thing separating your mix from the ones you hear on the radio is some single esoteric process. The malaise can almost always be traced to a whole selection of minor misjudgments that have been made at various points in the arrangement, editing, and mixing process. It doesn't matter if you have to replace the drums with samples, stuff synth pads between the guitar layers, add new backing vocals, or remove certain instruments entirely--just as long as your final product sounds great enough to make the client a happy bunny.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought a mixer, and this book, and I'm already recording, and better yet, learning how to improve my recordings quite a bit."
"Too often I embark on new projects and buy all the gear only to find out that my interest and tenacity wains, leaving me with a lot of equipment that I end up selling cheaper that I purchased it for. You can get this knowledge free my trawling around the internet and joining forums, but it does mean you have to weed out the chaff from the grain as there is a lot of opinion out there."
"There are so many different ways that we can record and mix audio now; Computer/Analog, ProTools/Logic, Rock/Country. If you read this trying to understand the concept and idea rather than expecting him to tell you exactly what settings to use you can learn a lot. This is a great reference for people learning to mix as well as experienced people who just want to pick up a few new ideas."
"This book has everything you need to know, and nothing you don't. It is my go-to book if I'm having issues with a mix, and always seems to provide just the right advice."
Best Democracy
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My grandson had this book for his social studies class and I read a chapter while he was visiting."
"Read it and you will understand but the reality will still exist and you stand unable to. change it."
"Some of this I was already aware of from reading other more comprehensive history books on the events themselves."
"The book is very detailed, telling the history in a very long way, from court records, number of arrests etc and I am losing focus."
"A more honest, if less glorified story of the United States, including lots of things our country would rather you didn't hear about."
"It’s a whole new way of looking at our history and it’s not pretty."
"This is book tells the history of the United States from a class, sexist and racist perspective."
"Honest, no-holds-barred telling of how we Europeans overtook and overwhelmed this part of North America."
Best Utopian Ideology
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is an astute analysis of present-day world, including its economic and political challenges that stem from ever-growing income inequality."
"Two evenings spent with Mr. Yunus's latest book has made me once again realize that: a) there are actually many good things happening; b) the world is a much bigger place, politically, than it seems on my TV or my radio; and c) many world leaders---perhaps most---think in terms of progress (not regress) and have developed plans to make such happen. Anyone who is really pressed for reading time can verify what I just wrote by thumbing through just Chapter 6 of WTZ to see how progressive and enlightened thinkers---like Mr. Yunus, of course---look at the world in a 2017 context, not a 1959 one. Muhammad Yunus's World of Three Zeros provides exactly this."
"But I think without two more "zeros", zero population growth and zero world economic growth (implying a need for redistribution as well), the three goals for poverty, unemployment and carbon emissions will remain impossible. A quick look at world bank data shows that despite fertility falling from 6.7 children/woman to 2.1 (probably close to replacement), Bangladesh's population still grew faster in 2015 (1.8 million) than it did in 1960 (1.4 million)."
"Dr. Yunus presents the concept of a social business as a solution to address unemployment, poverty, and pollution, including examples of successful social businesses in places as varied as Uganda, Bangladesh, France, and the United States."
"The author does a good job at describing challenges and problems, but is very limited in how to identify and implement solutions."
Best Radical Political Thought
To cover up their insidious fascist agenda, Democrats loudly accuse President Trump and other Republicans of being Nazis—an obvious lie, considering the GOP has been fighting the Democrats over slavery, genocide, racism and fascism from the beginning. He expertly exonerates President Trump and his supporters, then uncovers the Democratic Left's long, cozy relationship with Nazism: how the racist and genocidal acts of early Democrats inspired Adolf Hitler's campaign of death; how fascist philosophers influenced the great 20th century lions of the American Left; and how today's anti-free speech, anti-capitalist, anti-religious liberty, pro-violence Democratic Party is a frightening simulacrum of the Nazi Party. In The Big Lie , D'Souza shows that the Democratic Left's orchestrated campaign to paint President Trump and conservatives as Nazis to cover up its own fascism is, in fact, the biggest lie of all. His other best-selling books include Obama's America , The Roots of Obama's Rage , What's So Great About America , What's So Great About Christianity , Life After Death , and Illiberal Education .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is a slow process to convert a country, like the United States, into a socialist country, but if Hillary Clinton would have won, the United States and its citizens would have entered an era in which most of us would be through harder times than when Barack Obama was the president. They were a free country before Hugo Chavez became president and the middle class does not exist anymore and the rich people has left the country."
"The same is true for segregation. D'Souza's polemical strategy seems to be that when people point to American racism, Americans should point to the Democrat party, which is, after all, the only institution that supported slavery that remains, particularly in an age when Confederate statues are torn down. The difference between Fascism and Communism was that Fascism made the nation primary, whereas Communism made social class primary. The two approaches to Socialism diverged as a result of World War I when Mussolini, among others, saw how nationalism trumped social class. The result has been massive protests by Americans who feel that their cherished symbols of national pride have been insulted. D'Souza also discusses the "repressive tolerance" of Herbert Marcuse, whose writing seem to anticipate the hypocritical, psychotic time we are living through where the forces of tolerance are the most intolerant. There’s even precedent for the approach I’m discussing. During the Civil War Lincoln learned that Confederate soldiers were killing captured black federal troops or selling them into slavery rather than treating them as lawful prisoners of war. It said, “It is therefore ordered that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the laws of war, a rebel soldier shall be executed, and for every one enslaved by the enemy or sold into slavery, a rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labor on the public works.”9. Despite the evident harshness of his order, Lincoln knew this was the only way to change Confederate behavior. But that was wartime, and, upon reflection, we’re in a different situation. We’re the party that fought a great war to end slavery, fought lynching and segregation, shut down the Ku Klux Klan, opposed eugenics and forced sterilization, and resisted the incipient fascism of the street thugs in the 1960s. In the words of that slogan from the 1960s, “If not now, when?"
"Today’s euthanasia movement; the abortion movement; the political racial spoils system (i.e., “affirmative action); gun control policies; the secularization of society via the courts; ... all of these are the same rotten fruit from the poisonous tree that is known as American Progressivism which openly and wholeheartedly shared its plans, ideas and strategies with then up and coming fascist movements in Europe in the early 20th Century."
"D'Souza firmly established what a simple glimpse at Mousalini's past suggests: Fascism comes from the Left."