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THE NEXT AMERICAN CIVIL WAR The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite By Lee Harris Palgrave Macmillan. 248 pp. $27
The gist: What’s driving the unrest in America today? The notion that a ruling intellectual elite knows what’s best for average Americans. Time to honor our populist spirit and defend our founding principles. In its own words: “Because the passion for liberty inevitably clashes with the status quo, it will first appear in a negative light, as resistance to authority, as rebellion against the forces of law and order. It will start by destroying and tearing down — often quite literally. But this negative beginning is simply a prelude to the period of positive construction, much like dynamiting an old building in order to erect a new and improved one.”
THE BLUEPRINT Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency By Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski Lyons. 296 pp. $22.95
deploying Taliban ji- hadist tactics to blast America back to the stone e when manly men ruled, n were submissive and re- nced the voices of science. d be a long, hot summer. a swat from the left cancel e right? When do we reach cility where only the noise and reason have drained the titles.
levingstons@washpost.com of Book World and editor of the blog Political
The gist: Obama is working off a blueprint to turn America into a secular welfare state lorded over by an almighty central government by packing the courts, suppressing conservative media, changing voting laws and manipulating Americans’ views of liberty and God. In its own words: “We the People of the United States must choose whether . . . President Obama’s blueprint to reject and rewrite our Constitution will stand. We need to choose whether we will allow a permanent liberal government to emerge in this country, led by an imperial president of unprecedented power.”
THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists
By Aaron Klein with Brenda J. Elliott WND. 339 pp. $25.95
The gist: President Obama is suffering his own form of Manchurian Candidate syndrome — remember poor Sgt. Raymond Shaw, brainwashed by the Korean communists to become an assassin? Like Shaw, the president is hiding his shadowy past and is now an instrument of anti-American thugs bent on taking over the United States and transforming it into a radical, communist, socialist — did I mention extreme-left? — state. In its own words: “The more we try to learn about Obama’s Columbia [University] years, the less we actually know. From 1981 to 1983, the president of the United States was essentially an Invisible Man.”
TO SAVE AMERICA Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine By Newt Gingrich Regnery. 356 pp. $29.95
The gist: Secular socialists have taken over America and are imposing their will across the board on health care, business, state and federal governments and are destroying the vision of the Founding Fathers. In its own words: “America as we know it is now facing a mortal threat. The Left have expanded their power through their control of academia, the elite news media, union leaders, trial lawyers, the bureaucracy, the courts, and lobbyists at the state and federal levels. They share a vision of a secular, socialist America run for the interests of the members of the political machine that keeps them in power.... They want to use government power to change who we are and how we think.... With brave citizen leaders, the movement to save America will succeed.... We must speak out, organize, and never forget what’s at stake: our livelihood, our freedom, and our precious country.”
THE POST-AMERICAN PRESIDENCY The Obama Administration’s War on America By Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer Threshold (forthcoming in July)
The gist: President Obama is corrupting the office of the presidency, scorning capitalism and trashing the belief in American exceptionalism. In its own words: “What drives him is not American. He said it himself: ‘I was a little Jakarta street kid’ who found the Islamic call to prayer to be ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ For the most part, Barack Obama has carefully distanced himself from any sign of patriotism or national pride throughout his political career and his presidency.”
THE WASHINGTON POST • BOOK WORLD • SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010
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