Review: An incredibly comfortable read about expansive principals and beliefs...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2013
`Victory' humbly addresses some of those values and beliefs addressed by Edmund Burke, the political philosopher famously noted for the popular saying, "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." However, although widely attributed to Burke, the quote is not found in his works. The quote may very well be a modification of "‎Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing," a statement in the `Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770). In this work, Burke states, "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle," Volume i, page 526.  I write this as part of this Review, because this theme of apathy, promoted by evil threatening liberty, and all the good for which this notion of certain freedoms provides for in an open society, is what Author DeEtte Anderton is writing about in an a most accomplished style. Committing to humble, endearing argument premised on Higher Belief ... No, not argument, a reminder really of that Higher Belief, this is an incredibly comfortable read regarding huge ideological concepts, couched in a delicate religiosity and robust spirituality.  Learning the works of the political and social thinkers, having learned the Bible I applaud DeEtte Anderton as she takes something as unexpected as the presentation of a contraband candy cane to an appreciative  child, elevating the cause, the reminder of such endearing and important principles and beliefs to include our mandate to never simply look on and do nothing; to believe in nothing. Victory contributes, not only complimenting that body of work from Burke, Victory also fits well with the history of giving Prayer and Thanks, while not relying on the semantics of an oft misquoted parliamentary style notation, and, while not hesitating to maintain and tell a story about a stronger, prevailing belief system. GMB