About this title: The former vice president presents a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith of the Bush-led radical Right have combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date Published: 06/2007
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2007-05-22
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very Good. Very good hardcover, no dj. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Cover shows light soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2007-05-22
ISBN-13:9781594201226ISBN:1594201226
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Small format hardcover, VG/VG, interior clean, binding tight, light age-toning along edge, slightly bumped at corners. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780739484616ISBN:0739484613
Description: Good in Good jacket. 40-x add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
"This is a fine book. I just keep hearing the same messages from many different places and I support the message...it is just hard to determine the originator or recommend one over the other. The core message is that democracy only works with well informed citizens. We currently manipulate information and shrinking percentages of voters could be considered informed. I suppose if you personally feel Al Gore is a credible person of intellect, which I do, you may appreciate hearing the message from him over someone else...so there is value in that. There is quite a lot of attention on Bush abuses of power, which I am frankly done hearing about, and there is nothing original in the examples laid out. I realize this book came out when that was still interesting and important to our lives. I still like Al Gore...I just came into this book sort of exhausted on the topic."
"If I had read before the holiday this year my whole Republican family would have gotten a copy for Christmas. It´s a book you have to love and hate. Gore is the man, and we will lament his loss and praise his sense, but we are made to feel a little stupid for these last 8 years.
Just picturing Bush sending back the CIA report telling them to make a connection to Iraq after they already said there was no connection never will quite match his innocent/child-like expressions and poor locution. Perhaps the man IS smart. He duped a nation, made the Presidency more powerful, ignored Congress, The People, and worked unconstitutionally without ever being held accountable. He even dodged the damn shoe pretty impressively. Now he can retire to his mansion in Texas.
Good riddance. Let´s see if Obama can restore reason back into the Beltway and throughout the land."
"Gore presents his disagreements with his opponents as evidence of their mental inferiority. Even though his critiques of their policies are reasonable, by framing them as a question of smart (him) and dumb (them), he alienates anyone whom he might want to convince of his position. And massively annoys those who are already on his side."
"This is a must read in an election year. Gore outlines how television, a cool medium, has reduced political discourse to sounds bites. He pleads to a return to reasoned discourse, perhaps through the internet and blogs. The analysis is outstanding and disturbing. His solutions are not fully formed. Is there a way out of being observers back into being participants. He's doing a good job of it himself."
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