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Summary: Bruce dismantles the convoluted liberal dogma
Review: The moral equivalence, moral relativism, postmodernism, malignant narcissism, and unmitigated hypocrisy of the Left is expertly debunked by...none other than a former liberal and current lesbian feminist. Surprising? Yes, perhaps. But, nonetheless, Bruce, like so many other former liberals, has been disappointed and disenchanted by the sheer charlatanism, decadence and rapidly decling moral clarity of the liberal elite. Bruce exposes the blatant hypocrisy and the moral vacuum that the Left has conveniently created to disseminate their Leftist agenda. Bruce delineates the many examples of liberal shenanigans and charades - including how murdering 3,000 Americans isn't terrorism, but rather Freedom Fighters acting heroically against an oppressor. Bruce exposes the liberal agenda of the academic intelligentsia and how they "embrace a perverse moral relativism that will take us further into a world devoid of right and wrong." Intelligent and provocative reading. It's Tammy Bruce.
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Summary: Doesn't Prove Much
Review: The point of a book like this is to challenge the common thoughts on certain issues-- tease the brain with thoughts that are seen as 'politically incorrect'. This book does neither. Bruce only offers the same stereotypical arguements for controversial views that we've heard millions of times before. And even when she does have an acutely original thought, it fails to prove to the reader that she is right. It's an unflinching look at today's most diluted political and social issues, and for that Bruce receives a few stars. But beyond that, I would not recommend this book. (I am not completely through this rather long book- about 3/4, but seeing as it sells so well, I thought I should forewarn people.)
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Summary: YOU Malignant Narcissist!
Review: This being my first review, I must say I am suprised that I am doing so. The reason being is because of Tammy Bruce's fantastic book, "The Death of Right and Wrong." Firstly I should say that Ms. Tammy Bruce was a very brave woman in writing this book ... The book, right. The book was absolutely amazing and enlightening. This is the second novel (Mere Christianity - great book also) I have read which isn't a novel, moreover a political book. Through the whole experience I could not find a minute to put it down; it grabbed my attention from the beginning with her fantastic introduction to her ending with Ronald Reagan.
I had never heard of "Left and Right" nor of the many ideas she discussed in the book; which I have to say were brilliant. She described enough for me to grasp a full understanding of it all, using credible sources (which she noted), how the "malignant narcissists" are influencing our culture for the worse. The several groups of Elite were also discussed. At many times I was literally laughing, frowning and astonished. She used many intriguing and shocking examples while maintaining a constant flowing language. Her chapter 5, "Enslaving Their Own: Betrayal by the Black Elite," was especially moving and to me, daring. I would never expect someone to specifically state the names of people so bluntly in a book, while condenming them! Go Tammy! This book really opened my eyes to the state our culture is in. There were times I would disagree with her opinions, but it was rare. I plan to purchase her former book, The New Thought Police" after reading this one; if it is a fraction of interesting and enlightening as this one, I'm positive I will enjoy it!
Buy this book now; heck, buy Tammy's other book too while you're at it!
Thanks for reading my review!
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Summary: YOU Malignant Narcissist!
Review: This being my first review, I must say I am suprised that I am doing so. The reason being is because of Tammy Bruce's fantastic book, "The Death of Right and Wrong." Firstly I should say that Ms. Tammy Bruce was a very brave woman in writing this book ... The book, right. The book was absolutely amazing and enlightening. This is the second novel (Mere Christianity - great book also) I have read which isn't a novel, moreover a political book. Through the whole experience I could not find a minute to put it down; it grabbed my attention from the beginning with her fantastic introduction to her ending with Ronald Reagan.
I had never heard of "Left and Right" nor of the many ideas she discussed in the book; which I have to say were brilliant. She described enough for me to grasp a full understanding of it all, using credible sources (which she noted), how the "malignant narcissists" are influencing our culture for the worse. The several groups of Elite were also discussed. At many times I was literally laughing, frowning and astonished. She used many intriguing and shocking examples while maintaining a constant flowing language. Her chapter 5, "Enslaving Their Own: Betrayal by the Black Elite," was especially moving and to me, daring. I would never expect someone to specifically state the names of people so bluntly in a book, while condenming them! Go Tammy! This book really opened my eyes to the state our culture is in. There were times I would disagree with her opinions, but it was rare. I plan to purchase her former book, The New Thought Police" after reading this one; if it is a fraction of interesting and enlightening as this one, I'm positive I will enjoy it!
Buy this book now; heck, buy Tammy's other book too while you're at it!
Thanks for reading my review!
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Summary: A Romp Through a Shamefully Recognizeable World!
Review: This book - this stunner - focuses on what Tammy Bruce calls the moral relativism (more appropriately, moral nihilism) of our increasingly left-heading culture - the world where 'anything goes,' shame and temperance are bad, and morals are decidedly 'old hat.' Now, keep in mind - a conservative she is not. She is quite pro-choice, and an openly gay feminist. Lest anyone over-react to her thesis before reading it, she is not arguing that we should go back to the 1930's where women stay in the kitchen, reproductive freedom is not an option, and go back to an ultra-religious environment (like me, she is an atheist too). She is simply arguing that we need to get past our current cultural climate where to talk of morals is to be branded a reactionary; to stand up for what's right is wrong; and where 'anything goes' is given carte blanche. She is arguing, in other words, for the infusion of common sense back into our moral vocabulary. Here is my experience with this book. I am a critical reader and no matter what the position, I expect a good argument and good documentation. Well, Tammy Bruce gives us that and then some. Typically, I would start a chapter where she outlines a particular excess of the left's 'anything goes' morality, and think, "Surely she is just taking an isolated example of extremism and acting as if it is mainstream. Surely the left is not THAT far gone." By the end of (almost) all the chapters, I was convinced that far from picking only extreme examples to make things sound worse than they REALLY are, she was representing what really was. It is all right there in her book - citation after citation after citation. Doubtless, you will have the same experience I did. Ms. Bruce is just that good a researcher and arguer. The most eye opening chapters, I think, were those highlighting the mmoral bankruptcy of academia and those of the 'selling of sex' to minors on behalf of liberal groups like planned parenthood. The latter example follows the pattern outlined in the above paragraph. I thought, "Surely Planned Parenthood is not THAT bad of an organization. Surely no group designed to advocate reproductive freedom can actually be 'selling sex' to 10 year olds.' All I can say is READ IT!!! Especially if you have kids!!! The only flaws of this book are that (a) Ms. Bruce talks often as if The Left (always capitalized) is a big monolith engaging in conspiracy tactics. (Even by doing things as simple as refering to [T]his Left as a singular noun, rather than a plural one.) The book, in other words, can get a bit 'paranoid' at times. Second, Ms. Bruce occasionally engages in a mode of vitriol, calling people 'toxic sludge' and the like. One would have expected her to rise above this, even when dealing with bad people, and her 'vitriol modes' are dispalatable to say the least. But none of these flaws should dissuade you from reading this powerful work. It deserves to be read both by anyone (right or [you know you're out there] left) who feels that our country is experiencing an unhealthy age of nihilism and the 'anything is cool' mentality. Even I (a philosophical moral relativist of all things) am concerned and this book has reinforced the level of that concern. Get it and read it. Read it so you will 'get it.'
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Summary: An eyeopener
Review: This book is definitely an eyeopener. Tammy Bruce, on the surface, might be easily dismissed...at least that's what I had originally thought. I saw her on one of the cable news programs and thought "here is another right-wing wannabe". Strangely enough her ideas were thought-provoking and I decided to give this book a read. Her background really suprised me, and that's what gives her credability. She has been on the inside and seen her subject matter firsthand. This should be "must read" whether you consider yourself right or left. No matter what our political leaning, we should be interested in a certain morality to our lives. This, I believe, is what Ms Bruce is saying....
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Summary: Riveting and Terrific!
Review: This book is so wonderful that I was up all night finishing it. Tammy Bruce has, yet again, written a magnificent and intelligent book concerning the bizarre and twisted agenda of the so-called "Extreme Left." I myself have quite another name I'd like to use for the Left, especially after reading this book, but hey, I'll restrain myself from putting that into this review since children might be reading this, which incidentally is a whole lot more than the Extreme Left would do for children. Tammy details what the Left does to influence the young people in our colleges, in the entertainment industry, and in lots of other places that the average person might not suspect, in this amazing book. If you were ever subjected to mind-numbing left-wing conditioning by the professors at your college - as I was, and as most of America was also - you will especially adore Tammy's cool book. In fact, it is this book, and not the ex-hippy professors' rhetoric, that should be taught in the colleges of America! Thank you Tammy Bruce - you rule! ...
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Summary: The Left's Malignant Narcissism exposed by one of their own.
Review: This book moved me. So moved in fact that I often had to simply put the book down and walk away. The facts and reality of the agenda of those in the Left elite are demonstrated so clearly that it is hard to read, and harder still to imagine just how many lives have been and are being destroyed deliberately at the hands of the "malignant narcissists" (her term - page 26). Again, these disturbing facts in this book do not come from a religious or conservative viewpoint, but from a self professed liberal, gay, non-religious, former President of NOW - in other words, they come from inside the Left itself! The most shocking example of just how far this worldview has penetrated our society is the fact that many of these Left elite groups actually think that sexualizing your children for their own perverted benefit is a good thing! For example, GLSEN and their cartoon STD characters (page 115), or the ongoing work of the ultimate in mainstream pedophile supporters, Judith Levine, who states that "Sex is not harmful to children...there are many ways even the smallest of children can partake in it" (page 193). As outrageous as this sounds, it is not some fringe group of marginalized pedophiles that want this evil perpetrated to rationalize their depravity, but rather the leaders of the "special interest" groups on the Left, sponsored by their friends in the media. Well-documented facts throughout the book reveal this agenda clearly. The book is essentially a direct assault on the "Looking Glass" world of moral relativism. Within this worldview, there is no right or wrong, therefore all behaviors and all results of that behavior cannot be condemned. Of course the hypocrisy of the Left condemning others is clear to everyone, and she outlines it in example after example. Whether this is glorifying cold-blooded killers, pedophiles, and rapists, or whether it is hypocritically attacking and silencing those whose views would judge the actions of convicted murderers as "wrong" the source is the same. The cause is the "malignant narcissism" of the damaged people who comprise the Left elite, in particular those who lead the various "special interest" groups. Unfortunately, through this agenda to destroy value and virtue, everyone is painted through the lens of the worst offender, even those within those groups who are good and decent people. Tammy Bruce has yet again written a debilitating expose on the reality of what many of these Left groups are espousing. Tammy understands and demonstrates, for perhaps the first time I have seen in print by someone from the Left, that Christianity in particular is viciously attacked. What she never explains in the book is why Christianity, and not Islam or Judaism, who are equally scathing in their judgement of the moral practices of the Left, is attacked while the others are not. Truth is likely the reason. In using CS Lewis's classic "Mere Christianity" she discovers intellectually that the morals we hold to as people, and the values our hearts embrace, are the basic virtues of "Prudence, Temperance, Justice and Fortitude". "The Left has to restrict thought to destroy the concept of judgement and undermine notions of right and wrong" (see full quote on page 19). Tammy describes the Left's worldview is a world of self-gratification that requires an end to personal responsibility. Values, decency, and knowing right from wrong - and having the courage to act on that knowledge - are all verboten. (See full discussion on page 25) A very powerful and moving book for anyone across the political spectrum. It is a very painful reminder that much is at stake for our society and our future. This book is a MUST READ!
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Summary: Astute Analysis of the Application of Nihilism
Review: This is a striking and astonishing book. Bruce, coming from within the ranks of the very groups she excoriates, rings true. Unlike Phyllis Schlafly (Feminist Fantasies), Bruce doesn't blame one tiny segment of relatively powerless liberals (modern "feminists"). Rather, she embraces the original and true feminism: the feminism that caused the suffragists to put the needs of slaves and unborn children ahead of their own, recognized the character and personality of women, fought side by side with the medical association to protect women from the ravages of abortion, demanded full humanity for women, and elevated the relationship between mothers and children to its proper place. Bruce doesn't come to us as a mother; she comes to us as a lesbian pro-choice feminist with strong libertarian leanings, but she values and celebrates childhood and children. Her book is comipelling precisely because she comes from within the ranks, and she has the goods on techniques and goals of the leadership. The Death of Right and Wrong offers a compelling analysis of the lies and deceits of modern liberalism (as contrasted with classical liberalism). In a book filled with graphic and gripping illustrations of the outworkings of the current liberal philosophy, Bruce nails the problem right on the head. This is a book that will never bore you. Instead, be prepared to have your sensibilities offended. It is high time.
One point Bruce makes clearly is that there are decent homosexuals out there who are offended by the conduct of the gay rights movement. She felt the call to expose and oppose them, and she does so brilliantly. At one time, I called on honorable homosexuals to speak out. She has.
Tammy Bruce is clearly an analytical thinker. She was troubled by the niggling attitudes of the people on the liberal left and she decided to explore the problem. To my mind, this book is written by a person in transition. She as of yet offers us no solutions; she simply identifies the problem: repeatedly and consistently. Identifying the problem is the first step toward a solution. This books cries out for a sequel. I eagerly await it.
Pat Goltz
cofounder
Feminists for Life
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is an excellent read. I'm 22 years old, and it's chilling/shocking to know what is really going on in this country. In reference to college, children's education, sex ed, etc. I'm not a mother, but near the end of the book she goes into detail about what public schools teach your kids on sex-ed & as I was reading it, my jaw dropped. I cannot believe what is taught to these kids at such a young age! If you want to find out what is truly going on, read this book. She has references in the back of the book on where she got her information from. My next book on the list is, Treason : by Ann Coulter.
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