One of the winners already owns the book and asked me to give it to someone else -- I did a re-draw and you won this time! Email hollymathnerd at gmail dot com and I'll get it out to you ASAP!
Brilliant review of a brilliant book and author. The title is reminiscent of another Russian dissidents book. Yuri Bezmenov wrote one called A Love Letter to America under his western pseudonym Thomas Schumann. Full circle!
Will be sharing this review with many, & have the book on my read next list. It sounds like a very timely read for this season of American political life - I hope it helps many of us to wake up!
Looks like it's available for Kindle Unlimited. No promises on timing -- I've got several books to read or finish reading, including to give feedback to writer friends who are waiting -- but the premise is certainly intriguing, so I'll get around to it eventually! Thanks for asking, and for reading.
I read it recently having become a big Konstantin Kisin fan after seeing his marvelous address to the Oxford Union - his family’s story gives it enormous power. It should be required reading for all school children instead of the divisive propaganda they’re currently being force fed by the Western educational establishment. We live in dangerous times
Great recommendation, Holly. I'm wondering if my 10-year old daughter might be a hair young for this book. Maybe wait a year or two? I got her The Great Brain on your recommendation... it's coming next in her queue. Thanks!
Yes, I think 10 is likely a hair too young, unless she's an unusually sophisticated reader for her age. Definitely keep it for the next year or two though!
I am a big fan of KK and FF and Triggernometry. One of their really good episodes is with a guy who actually was a university lecturer and explains how Focault and Derrida are completely misrepresented and twisted by today's wokies. He's very working class and well worth a listen.
Added it to my wish list on Amazon. The whole Frankfurt School that we imported into and empowered in this country was built on the recognition that Marx was wrong, that, in fact, ordinary workers prospered under free enterprise (slandered by Marx as "capitalism"). Rather than having nothing to lose but their chains, ordinary workers in America now live better than historical kings. Hell, even the homeless steal electricity from street poles to recharge their cell phones, and running water from fire hydrants. Herbert Marcuse is mainly responsible for brilliantly recasting Marxism as oppressor and oppressed classes based on unchangeable racial classifications rather than behavior.
The antidotes to the insidious evil of dictatorship by the cognoscenti are humility and gratitude, in other words, the first and tenth commandments. The proper rallying cry of those who wish to save The Republic is "Freedom! Freedom based only on behavior, not on intelligence or knowledge. The lowest IQ bag boy in Barstow should have the same freedom as the highest advisor to the President as long as neither commits a crime.
One of the winners already owns the book and asked me to give it to someone else -- I did a re-draw and you won this time! Email hollymathnerd at gmail dot com and I'll get it out to you ASAP!
Brilliant review of a brilliant book and author. The title is reminiscent of another Russian dissidents book. Yuri Bezmenov wrote one called A Love Letter to America under his western pseudonym Thomas Schumann. Full circle!
Thank you!
You're one of the random number draw winners. Email hollymathnerd at gmail dot com with where to send it, and I'll send it out tomorrow.
This looks great Holly!
Thanks for the recommendation.
It's going on the "gift wish list" for when family and friends ask. 🤗
Excited to read it.
Do you know if it's available in Libraries? Or Libby? We definitly make extended use of that resource.
No idea, sorry!
It is in libraries, at least in my hometown.
Will be sharing this review with many, & have the book on my read next list. It sounds like a very timely read for this season of American political life - I hope it helps many of us to wake up!
Got Konstantin Kisin's book, "An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West," on your excellent recommendation. Thanks!
I will be reading this book, Holly. Thank you for the introduction. Your. Plumb is fabulous.
On what terms would you be willing to review my 2021 novel Proles - a Novel about 2084, if any?
Looks like it's available for Kindle Unlimited. No promises on timing -- I've got several books to read or finish reading, including to give feedback to writer friends who are waiting -- but the premise is certainly intriguing, so I'll get around to it eventually! Thanks for asking, and for reading.
Thank your fifth sense for impeccable timing!
Right?!? I got goosebumps so many times. I was so glad to be reading it *now*.
Sounds like an awesome book!
Great review. Sent it to my friends.
You're one of the random number draw winners. Email hollymathnerd at gmail dot com with where to send it, and I'll send it out tomorrow.
On order now! What a recommendation!
I read it recently having become a big Konstantin Kisin fan after seeing his marvelous address to the Oxford Union - his family’s story gives it enormous power. It should be required reading for all school children instead of the divisive propaganda they’re currently being force fed by the Western educational establishment. We live in dangerous times
That speech was a masterpiece, and at a little under ten minutes, watching or listening to it is time very well spent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJdqJu-6ZPo
His articulate, confident, content-dense, no-filler delivery is reminiscent of Douglas Murray.
Great recommendation, Holly. I'm wondering if my 10-year old daughter might be a hair young for this book. Maybe wait a year or two? I got her The Great Brain on your recommendation... it's coming next in her queue. Thanks!
Yes, I think 10 is likely a hair too young, unless she's an unusually sophisticated reader for her age. Definitely keep it for the next year or two though!
I am a big fan of KK and FF and Triggernometry. One of their really good episodes is with a guy who actually was a university lecturer and explains how Focault and Derrida are completely misrepresented and twisted by today's wokies. He's very working class and well worth a listen.
https://youtu.be/FwRnLuDHWjQ?feature=shared
Great share, thank you.
I’m going to bribe my grandson to read this book. Thanks for the recommendation.
Added it to my wish list on Amazon. The whole Frankfurt School that we imported into and empowered in this country was built on the recognition that Marx was wrong, that, in fact, ordinary workers prospered under free enterprise (slandered by Marx as "capitalism"). Rather than having nothing to lose but their chains, ordinary workers in America now live better than historical kings. Hell, even the homeless steal electricity from street poles to recharge their cell phones, and running water from fire hydrants. Herbert Marcuse is mainly responsible for brilliantly recasting Marxism as oppressor and oppressed classes based on unchangeable racial classifications rather than behavior.
The antidotes to the insidious evil of dictatorship by the cognoscenti are humility and gratitude, in other words, the first and tenth commandments. The proper rallying cry of those who wish to save The Republic is "Freedom! Freedom based only on behavior, not on intelligence or knowledge. The lowest IQ bag boy in Barstow should have the same freedom as the highest advisor to the President as long as neither commits a crime.
I love you so much but you lost me at “put footprints on the moon”.