Review: Disappointingly biased
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
It is rare that I can find almost nothing to recommend a particular book, but this one is one of those few. The ideas presented may be essential knowledge, but the way they are presented is quite skewed. In the introduction, the author praises communism as a particularly successful societal plan. Perhaps I am naive, but I don't consider it a success by any definition of the word. Skipping to a few other topics reveals a perspective best characterized as supportive of the notion that people need strong government to tell them what to do, veering frequently into the sort of liberal idealism that denigrates moral rule as outdated and unnecessarily restrictive. While I would classify myself as a strong conservative and a passionately patriotic American, I am perfectly capable of reading about and even appreciating ideas that don't conform to that standard. When the entire presentation is designed to find fault with my beliefs, though, I don't see the point.