The "bloviator in chief" (Frank Rich) has used his time not spent on preparing for his radio show to write an "America is the bestest ever country in the whole Universe" book. Titled "America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I) : From the Age of Discovery to a World at War," it's published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian/Inspirational press. Nelson is a client of PR firm Creative Response Concepts, the people that helped bring us the Swiftboat Vets for Truth. Amazon is selling it for $17.99 but on his site, Slots trying for $26.95 to $36.95.
A reality-based review from Publishers Weekly:
More discerning adult readers will find that the lack of originality and the overreliance on a restricted number of dated sources (Samuel Eliot Morison, Daniel Boorstin, Henry Steele Commager) make the book a retread of previous popular histories (such as Boorstin's The Americans). This is history put to use as inspiration rather than serving to enlighten or explain, but Bennett does succeed in shaping the material into a coherent, readable narrative.
A lying whore based review:
"Bill Bennett's book will stand as perhaps the most important addition to American scholarship at this, the start of the new century. For the past fifty years American historians have either distorted American history or reduced it to a mess of boring indictments of our cultural and political heritage. With this book Bennett offers to Americans young and old an exciting and enjoyable history of what makes America the greatest nation on earth. "
-Brian Kennedy, president, The Claremont Institute
Note that Slots is the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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