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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safeby Arianna Huffington
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"[P]erhaps it is a mistake to hold Arianna Huffington to any real standard of intellectual or journalistic rigor. She is just an adventuress, ideologically and socially; an impresario, with a practiced eye for the main chance; a media phenomenon, which is among the thinnest phenomena of all; a nimble brand. The other day I opened a book and came upon an epigraph that reminded me of her and her hunger: "I wanted to do business faster than the ordinary mercantile transactions would admit." That was said by P.T. Barnum." Isaac Chotiner, New Republic Online (read the entire New Republic Online review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:For Arianna Huffington, the problem with the Republican Party is not that it is at odds with the views of progressives, but that its lunatic fringe has taken over the party and is at odds with the views of the American people. By significant majorities, Americans believe in the science of evolution, don't want Roe v. Wade overturned, don't want to ignore global warming, want good health care for their kids, and want to bring our troops home from Iraq. And yet, to Huffington, the representatives of the Right seem to be competing over who among them can be the biggest Neanderthal and are having the time of their lives supporting torture, standing by the behavior of the Blackwater thugs, and backing the White House's delusions on everything from war to stem cell research. Flashing back to the Reagan era is one thing, but flashing back to the Dark Ages is quite another. And this is what Right Is Wrong will expose. Review:"Columnist Huffington unleashes her pen on the 'far-right cowboys' and 'lunatics' who, she says, are 'running the Republican asylum' and — with the media's help — threatening global safety, American security, health care and civil liberties. Her contribution to ongoing political debates offers well-rehearsed analyses parsing right-wing spin on the Iraq War, the justification for torture, global warming, immigration, stem cell research and health-care reform. Huffington's sallies have no trouble finding the chinks in the armor of the Bush administration, neocons like Bill Kristol or right-wing media stalwarts like Ann Coulter. While this is a serviceable election-year playbook, Huffington's populist stance may strike some as shaky given her relationship with the media she decries (she lambastes a television show for giving Ann Coulter a platform without adequately accounting for her own presence on the same program). Moreover, her distinction between the current radical right-wing leadership and Ronald Reagan's GOP fails to account for the strong continuity in terms of policies and personnel and has more rhetorical appeal than historical merit. A National Book Award — winning novelist applies her skills to nonfiction" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:The editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post tackles the issues at the heart of the 2008 presidential election with her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit.
Synopsis:With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture. But they haven’t done it on their own: they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again. Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda. About the AuthorArianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist, author of 11 books, and the cofounder and editor of online magazine TheHuffingtonPost.com. She lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters. Table of Contents1. The Right Goes Wrong 2. The Media: Equal Time for Lies 3. The Media: Snoozers, Losers, and the Honor Roll 4. Dim Bulbs: Congress's Low-Wattage Energy Bill 5. The Right's War on Science 6. Iraq: The Beginning of a War Without End 7. Iraq: The Long Hard Slog Gets Longer and Sloggier 8. Iraq: Petraus Ex Machina 9. Casualties of War: Neglecting Afghanistan, Empowering Iran 10. Torture: America Loses the Moral High Ground 11. Xenophobia 2.0: The Immigration Fixation 12. The Right's Recession 13. Sick, Sick, Sick: The Right's Unhealthy Approach to Health Care 14. God, Guns, and the Right's New Democracy 15. John McCain: Hijacked by the Right Righting the Wrongs of the Right Source Notes Acknowledgements Index What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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