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Aug 10 Book Club - End of America/Wolf Skeptic Book Club - Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 8029 Kingston Pike - The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf - Aug. 10, 2008 ; 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. From Joan Omarzu: If you are coming to the book club on Sunday, but have not had a chance to read Naomi Wolf's book, The End of America, you can go to the site below to read a summary of her book in a Guardian article that she wrote. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment Laurence W. Britt wrote an article in Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 23, Number 2, covering the same topic. He lists 13 things that governments did in several countries during the last century before citizens lost their freedom to facism. http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm From Amazon.com: Review "One of the most important books that's been written, certainly in the last decade or two, and perhaps in my lifetime." -- Thom Hartmann, best-selling author and host of The Thom Hartmann Radio Program âNaomi Wolf âs End of America is a vivid, urgent, mandatory wake-up call that addresses momentous issues of tyranny, democracy, and survival.â âBlanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume Eleanor Roosevelt "Naomi Wolf sounds the alarm for all American patriots. We must come together as a nation and recommit ourselves to the fundamental American idea that no president, whether Democrat or Republican, will ever be given unchecked power." âWes Boyd, co-founder, MoveOn.org âThe framers of our Constitution fully understood that it can happen here. Patriots like Madison, Paine, and Franklin would certainly applaud Naomi Wolf and recognize her as a sister in their struggle.â âMark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again âYou will be shocked and disturbed by this book. Most Americans reject outright any comparison of post 9/11 America with the fascism and totalitarianism of Nazi Germany or Pinochetâs Chile. Sadly, the parallels and similarities, what Wolf calls the âechoesâ between those societies and America today, are all too compelling.â âMichael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights Posted by pking Aug. 05, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
