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Item specifics
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- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465019382
ISBN-13
9780465019380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77904480
Product Key Features
Book Title
Battle : How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Political Process / Political Advocacy, General, American Government / General
Genre
Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-008475
Reviews
Richard B. Cheney, former Vice President of the United States "This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." William J. Bennett "Arthur Brooks is one of America's most astute, bold, and iconoclastic thinkers.The Battleprovides yet more evidence of that fact. Loaded with fresh data and common sense,The Battleuncovers liberalism's true grand agenda-to change America's culture and the American way-and explains how these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win.", Richard B. Cheney, former Vice President of the United States "This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." William J. Bennett "Arthur Brooks is one of America's most astute, bold, and iconoclastic thinkers. The Battle provides yet more evidence of that fact. Loaded with fresh data and common sense, The Battle uncovers liberalism's true grand agenda-to change America's culture and the American way-and explains how these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win." Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World Magazine , and Provost, The King's College "Economic issues are not just about money. They're about how we live. The Battle shows how Washington power-grabbers use financial fears to tell the rest of us how we must live. Crucially, The Battle teaches us how to fight back." Karl Rove "Clear, sharp, well reasoned and tough, The Battle is a must-read for conservatives who want our movement to dominate the intellectual and policy debates of America's coming vital decades." Ronald Kessler, Newsmax "Sometimes it takes someone who was on the other side to explain things clearly, as Brooks does in his eye-opening book…Crammed with telling statistics, Brooks' book says that academia is a particularly important part of the '30 percent coalition.'", Richard B. Cheney, former Vice President of the United States "This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." William J. Bennett "Arthur Brooks is one of America's most astute, bold, and iconoclastic thinkers.The Battleprovides yet more evidence of that fact. Loaded with fresh data and common sense,The Battleuncovers liberalism's true grand agenda-to change America's culture and the American way-and explains how these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win." Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief,World Magazine, and Provost, The King's College "Economic issues are not just about money. They're about how we live.The Battleshows how Washington power-grabbers use financial fears to tell the rest of us how we must live. Crucially,The Battleteaches us how to fight back." Karl Rove "Clear, sharp, well reasoned and tough,The Battleis a must-read for conservatives who want our movement to dominate the intellectual and policy debates of America's coming vital decades.", Richard B. Cheney, former Vice President of the United States "This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." William J. Bennett "Arthur Brooks is one of America's most astute, bold, and iconoclastic thinkers. The Battle provides yet more evidence of that fact. Loaded with fresh data and common sense, The Battle uncovers liberalism's true grand agenda--to change America's culture and the American way--and explains how these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win." Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World Magazine , and Provost, The King's College "Economic issues are not just about money. They're about how we live. The Battle shows how Washington power-grabbers use financial fears to tell the rest of us how we must live. Crucially, The Battle teaches us how to fight back." Karl Rove "Clear, sharp, well reasoned and tough, The Battle is a must-read for conservatives who want our movement to dominate the intellectual and policy debates of America's coming vital decades." Ronald Kessler, Newsmax "Sometimes it takes someone who was on the other side to explain things clearly, as Brooks does in his eye-opening book...Crammed with telling statistics, Brooks' book says that academia is a particularly important part of the '30 percent coalition.'", From the foreword by Newt Gingrich Arthur C. Brooks has written a book which will take its place with Charles Murray's Losing Ground as one of the pivotal books around which American history turned. From his very first sentences Brooks is outlining a stark and compelling analysis of the crisis of contemporary America. Brooks begins: "America faces a new culture war. I know this language is jarring, and many people are unwilling to accept it. But it's true." The Battle then outlines three big facts: First, there is a fundamental disagreement about America's future between a socialist, redistributionist minority (the 30% coalition) and a massive free enterprise, work ethic, opportunity oriented majority (the 70% majority). For years I have spoken and written that "we are the majority". It is a concept I learned from Ronald Reagan in the 1970s. Now Brooks provides the ammunition to factually explain why the 70% should govern America as a reflection of our legitimate majority status. Second, there is an elite system of power which enables the 30% coalition to dominate the 70% majority. There are the seeds of an extraordinary history book buried in a few paragraphs of The Battle . How did the coalition of word users come to so thoroughly dominate the coalition of workers and doers? How did the elites on academic campuses come to define legitimacy for the news media, the Hollywood system, the Courts, and the bureaucracy? Brooks makes clear that the dominance of the hard left in these worlds is a fact. He sets the stage for someone (maybe another AEI scholar) to develop the historic explanation of how this usurpation of the people by the elite came to be. Third, this is a conflict over values in which those who represent redistributionist, left wing materialism have stolen the language of morality while those who favor freedom, individual opportunity, the right to pursue happiness and personal liberty have been maneuvered into a series of banal and ultimately unattractive positions in the public debate. Brooks' outline of a morally dominant culture of freedom shaming the materialistic, statist, coercive culture of redistribution is as important for our generation as Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was for the Reagan-Thatcher generation. What makes The Battle so important is its unique combination of intellectual clarity and the best succinct analysis of the values of the American people I have ever read. Brooks argues that conservatism in its market oriented, individual liberty, equality of opportunity, right to pursue happiness, work ethic form is both popular and historically the most positive way for people to live. After you have read this book and committed its arguments and its salient facts to memory, you will be able to debate any elitist redistributionist leftist and win the day in both moral rhetoric and factual analysis. Every American about their country's future and worried by the radicalism of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine should read The Battle . It is the ammunition with which to save our country and change our history for the better., From the foreword by Newt Gingrich Arthur C. Brooks has written a book which will take its place with Charles Murray'sLosing Groundas one of the pivotal books around which American history turned. From his very first sentences Brooks is outlining a stark and compelling analysis of the crisis of contemporary America. Brooks begins: "America faces a new culture war. I know this language is jarring, and many people are unwilling to accept it. But it's true." The Battlethen outlines three big facts: First, there is a fundamental disagreement about America's future between a socialist, redistributionist minority (the 30% coalition) and a massive free enterprise, work ethic, opportunity oriented majority (the 70% majority). For years I have spoken and written that "we are the majority". It is a concept I learned from Ronald Reagan in the 1970s. Now Brooks provides the ammunition to factually explain why the 70% should govern America as a reflection of our legitimate majority status. Second, there is an elite system of power which enables the 30% coalition to dominate the 70% majority. There are the seeds of an extraordinary history book buried in a few paragraphs ofThe Battle. How did the coalition of word users come to so thoroughly dominate the coalition of workers and doers? How did the elites on academic campuses come to define legitimacy for the news media, the Hollywood system, the Courts, and the bureaucracy? Brooks makes clear that the dominance of the hard left in these worlds is a fact. He sets the stage for someone (maybe another AEI scholar) to develop the historic explanation of how this usurpation of the people by the elite came to be. Third, this is a conflict over values in which those who represent redistributionist, left wing materialism have stolen the language of morality while those who favor freedom, individual opportunity, the right to pursue happiness and personal liberty have been maneuvered into a series of banal and ultimately unattractive positions in the public debate. Brooks' outline of a morally dominant culture of freedom shaming the materialistic, statist, coercive culture of redistribution is as important for our generation as Hayek'sThe Road to Serfdomwas for the Reagan-Thatcher generation. What makesThe Battleso important is its unique combination of intellectual clarity and the best succinct analysis of the values of the American people I have ever read. Brooks argues that conservatism in its market oriented, individual liberty, equality of opportunity, right to pursue happiness, work ethic form is both popular and historically the most positive way for people to live. After you have read this book and committed its arguments and its salient facts to memory, you will be able to debate any elitist redistributionist leftist and win the day in both moral rhetoric and factual analysis. Every American about their country's future and worried by the radicalism of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine should readThe Battle. It is the ammunition with which to save our country and change our history for the better., Richard B. Cheney, former Vice President of the United States "This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." William J. Bennett "Arthur Brooks is one of America's most astute, bold, and iconoclastic thinkers. The Battle provides yet more evidence of that fact. Loaded with fresh data and common sense, The Battle uncovers liberalism's true grand agenda-to change America's culture and the American way-and explains how these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win." Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World Magazine , and Provost, The King's College "Economic issues are not just about money. They're about how we live. The Battle shows how Washington power-grabbers use financial fears to tell the rest of us how we must live. Crucially, The Battle teaches us how to fight back." Karl Rove "Clear, sharp, well reasoned and tough, The Battle is a must-read for conservatives who want our movement to dominate the intellectual and policy debates of America's coming vital decades." Ronald Kessler, Newsmax "Sometimes it takes someone who was on the other side to explain things clearly, as Brooks does in his eye-opening book&Crammed with telling statistics, Brooks' book says that academia is a particularly important part of the '30 percent coalition.'"
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Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Freshman
Dewey Decimal
322/.30973
Synopsis
America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays--rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare state programs. But, as American Enterprise Institute's president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in The Battle , the forces for social democracy have returned with a vengeance, expanding the power of the state to a breathtaking degree. The Battle offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise; it is at once a call to arms and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that divides Right and Left in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake., America faces a new culture war--one that threatens our long-standing culture of free enterprise. Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. But the recent economic crisis has distorted these values, leading many Americans to forget the evils of socialism--which, as Arthur C. Brooks reveals, is back with a vengeance. Its proponents are playing for keeps, and if they win, America will be changed forever, both economically and culturally. At once a call to action and a crucial redefinition of the gulf that divides Americans, The Battle offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise, the very soul of America., The battle is on between the forces of social democracy and America's great tradition of free enterprise--and the stakes couldn't be higher, America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays-rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy.Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare state programs. But, as American Enterprise Institute's president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in 'The Battle', the forces for social democracy have returned with a vengeance, expanding the power of the state to a breathtaking degree. 'The Battle' offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise; it is at once a call to arms and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that divides Right and Left in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
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JK467.B76 2010
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