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| Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics | 
 enlarge | Author: Glenn Greenwald
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 164593
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307408027
Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2734
EAN: 9780307408020
ASIN: 0307408027
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Finally, a much-needed political mythbuster April 15, 2008
39 out of 46 found this review helpful
Anyone who plans on watching or participating in the 2008 badly needs to read this book. Glenn Greenwald's insightful take on the current electoral arena is a powerful follow-up to his previous work and refreshing perspective on the current mudslinging that has come to define American politics.
I would also like to recommend this book for true Republicans who are tired of watching their ideology of small government and rich civil liberties being hijacked by the loony wing of their party that cuts taxes for the rich and sends the less fortunate to die in their hopeless foreign quagmires for oil.
Read this book.
A Book for Real Republicans April 25, 2008
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
I am a registered Republican. I voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and voted Republican in the Virginia primary. Since 2004, I have slowly, painfully, come to the realizations that Greenwald so eloquently articulates.
For an exhaustive analysis, the review "Exposes the Freak Show" expertly details what is so wonderful about this book; instead I would just like to encourage fellow Republicans to read this book, so you may better understand who is currently leading our party. Despite allegations to the alternative, the book is highly evidenced with simple facts about candidates lives. Nothing more complex is necessary. Please read this book.
If It Didn't Hurt So Much, I Would Laugh! April 19, 2008
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
I have read all three of Glenn Greenwald's books and he continues to build on the indictment of the GOP generally and this administration particularly. He takes what I have felt, in my gut, was true and gives me the information I need to KNOW it is true. He exposes the fact that the Emperor, in fact, has no clothes. He proves the charge of hypocracy with exquisite detail and skill. I'd be willing to bet he was VERY effective in the court room. The research and documentation are evident and convincing.
I have watched the decline of journalistic integrity over the past three decades. Through out the media mergers and growth of right-wing tabloid media "news" programming, I have marveled at the dumbing down of what passes as journalism. I have often speculated as to what the media spin would be if Watergate had happened in 2000 instead of 1972.
The GOP is so sordid and sleazy and these people are the ones with power in our country. Surely, if it didn't hurt so much, I would laugh. Even Monty Python could not have invented anything this preposterous.
 The hypocrisy of the book. April 20, 2008
13 out of 167 found this review helpful
On Huffington's blog the author has this to say of his book"
"It examines the deceitful, personality-based election tactics the Right uses to build absurd cults of personality around their leaders while demonizing liberal and Democratic candidates."
Does anyone really doubt for even one second that this describes not only John McCain, but Hillary Clinton and, especially, Barak Obama? There is not a Republican I know who thinks much of John McCain, but from watching the news one clearly is left with the troubling impression that both Clinton, and again especially Obama, have been elevated to Jim Jones status by their respective cults of mindless worshipers. When one watches video of Obama's political rally and the mass weeping and even fainting by countless fatuous adoring fans one feels the icy tingle of history run up their spine when remembering the exact same reaction when Hitler worked the crowds during and after his political ascendancy.
Scratch out everyplace in the book that says 'Republican' and write in 'Democrat', and cross out 'McCain' and write in 'Obama' or 'Clinton' and you would have a work no less, and perhaps more, true. The radical right has Fox and the Wall Street Journal, the lunatic left has CNN and the Washington Post. Does anyone really need a book to tell them this?
Sadly, McCain will more than probably continue to push the Republican party towards a fascistic sense of itself, while no doubt either Clinton or Obama will continue to move the Democrats further into Neo-Marxism. Any book that conceals, or does not recognize both those truths, is not worth the paper it is printed on, and is, in short, a disservice to the cause of American political liberty.
A dose of their own medicine May 31, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Greenwald writes an online column for Salon, which if you haven't read, you must. He consistently provides razor sharp insight simply not available in traditional media, such as astute criticism of said media. This book is an unflinching dressing-down of the ridiculous myths that exist out there about "conservatives," from John Wayne to John McCain. No need to list them here--if you're even looking at picking up this book, you already know what they are, and are outraged by them. My only criticism of Greenwald is that he can from time to time be repetitive in his observations and points, taking, for example, 15 pages to say what could be said in 12. That's all that keeps me from giving this 5 stars. But don't let that stop you. Buy this book. And start reading him on Salon.
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