Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

While we're on the subject of "objective writing" vs "liberal screeds," intellectually-curious people would also enjoy "Rogue Nation?" by Clyde Prestowitz. This author was an economic advisor for the Reagan administration and currently involved in world economic policy. Despite the provocative title, Prestowitz' book is well thought out, well researched and written unemotionally. The substance of his arguments (to paraphrase an earlier reviewer of this Philips book) are also little different from those of Michael Moore et al. Perhaps those who are quick to discredit these works should consider that there might be some factual basis to them. Prestowitz, by the way, is advising Howard Dean. Credit is due to the few real conservatives (Prestowitz, Phillips, David Brock) have awakened to realize that the current cadre of "conservative Republicans" are the true radicals. I long for the day when the word "reform" again has a positive meaning. Too often now, the word is a smoke screen for yet another destructive radical-right initiative that's bad for our country and its people. Geez, even John Le Carre, ever one to avoid politics in his novels, can no longer remain silent about the madness that has hijacked the United States and an activist minority of its people! To those who hope that people will wake up to the disparity between the Bush class and the mainstream of our country; the Phillips book deserves reading. There is a pattern to these Amazon reader reviews - some say this book is inspired & insightful; others say it is trash. To those who would say that it's "liberal conspiratory trash," has it occurred to you that perhaps there is some truth to the reporting? Unfortunately, the information sources that so many "conservatives" consider to be authoritative are opinion-based and not fact-based. Yet they are positioned as fact and that's enough for many people. It is sad.