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Summary: Thought provoking...
Review: I bought this book several years ago, and put it on my bookshelf and forgot about it (I do this quite a lot). The ironic thing is that my husband and I have been discussing many of the topics that Bork touches on in this book, and reading this book now has brought clarity on the root causes and cultural consequences that we had been discussing. Among them is the increasing hedonism of our culture, hostility to Christianity, special status for certain groups, pornography as free speech, abortion for convenience, and the rise of terrorism. As products of the 60's generation, it was quite a shock to realize where that counter-culture has brought us. Some readers have criticized the solutions Bork proposes, or have decried what they see as the absence of solutions, but the first step in solving a problem is describing it. Bork has defined it for us in complex and chilling detail. I recommend reading of this book as a catalyst for reform.
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Summary: Polemical and distorted-lucky he didn't reach supreme court
Review: Bork doesn't understand the protest against the Vietnam war. It couldn't be because the war--all wars--are immoral, rather personal gratification must be the reason. Or hating one's own country must be the reason! The sixties generation, perhaps, were the first to view wars on TV, and it doesn't take a genius to see that war does not accomplish the ends told to the soldiers. And it is evident, too, that war serves the interests of the corporate elite and not the ordinary citizen. In the fifties, you could make a case that the corporate interests coincided with its employees, but post Reagan--that is not the case.
There are moral reasons for tolerating diverse economic systems, political systems, and life-styles. Bork rejects this possiblity. Morality, according to Bork, is strictly of an organized religious variety. Bork ignores the moral implications of corporate advertizing and marketing practices--as partial source of youth culture of which he disapproves. I do agree with him on one point, however, abortion should stop. But the economic conditions that give rise to the problem need to be changed, not the legal and safe method.
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Summary: The American Left Made it Possible for North Vietnam to Win
Review: Robert Bork shows how the left wing elites have worked to try to destroy our Judeo-Christian heritage. He has a pithy way of expressing the way we have lost our moral bearings in a manner which compromises public morals. For instance, when it comes to raunchy programming, he cites Michael Medved to the effect that saying "Don't like it, just turn if off" is like saying "Turn off the smog if you don't like it." Bork suggests that Rush Limbaugh is popular because he is like the underground satirists in the old Soviet Union. Most interesting is his description of how the left wing caused America to lose in Vietnam. Bork cites Bui Tin, a former North Vietnames military official, who makes it clear that the US antiwar movement gave the North Vietnamese confidence, even in the face of military defeats, that US resolve would crumble with time. Intrigued, I looked up the cited article in the August 3, 1995 WALL STREET JOURNAL, p. A8, and found it quite revealing. But I suspected all this long ago. Even as a child in the 1960's, long before I even knew what a liberal was, I noticed the inordinate media attention to the antiwar movement and almost total silence on the cruelties of the Communists.
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Summary: Judge Bork is a National Treasure.
Review: Sadly, the most the average Joe/Jane knows about this brilliant man is that he was tarred and feathered by the Democrats during his confirmation hearing for a seat on the Supreme Court. Yet Robert H. Bork is hands down one of the most erudite and scholarly commentators on American political life, as well as the most underrated. He may not be as telegenic as Sean Hannity, or a verbal swordsman, like Rush Limbaugh. Yet Judge Bork has earned a place at the table with this jeremiad. He makes no new arguments. Much of what he points out has been written about before. Yet Judge Bork has weighed in with the experience that his years have brought him as well as with his passion for truth and justice. This book is far more than an attempt at "come-uppance" for the shabby and unprofessional way he was treated by the Senate Judiciary scum like Teddy Kennedy. This book is highly underrated and it belongs on the bookshelf of any good conservative, or patriot.
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Summary: Rough beast indeed
Review: "The fact that men, who did not cry ten years ago, now do so indicates that something has gone high and soft in the culture." If you are moved by pronouncements like that, you'll enjoy this book, because that's pretty typical of the level of argumentation here. I find it interesting that so many reviewers call Bork a 'true conservative'. Maybe this refers to the fact that he comes right out and says he wants censorship and doesn't believe in a right to privacy, rather than going through the usual conservative pretense of claiming to want a smaller government.
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Summary: Unreadable dreck
Review: This man truly needs help. And anyone who finds this nonsense persuasive needs shock treatments.
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Summary: An excellent treatment.
Review: I think that this book is a excellent treatment and analysis of liberalism's trends and its underlying foundational concepts. ... The only problem I have with the book, is that he doesn't really offer specified ways to fix societal problems, but it is still a overwhelmingly good book.(And my copy ,is cut wrong, but that is not his fault)
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Summary: Honest, irrefutable...no wonder liberals can't take it.
Review: This is the most honest and thoroughly reasoned book on current events that I've read in years--not your usual NYTimes bestselling slop. This man is courageous enough to be honest about the problems facing us and brilliant enough to meticulously show what the "root causes" for them are. Liberals who come on this site to try and trash the book are reduced to hysterical name-calling since, as usual, they can't argue with facts. Pesky humanity just keeps getting in the way of their twisted social engineering. It's enough to make them tear up and scream "RACIST, FASCIST, SEXIST" at the rest of us for daring to inconvenience them by not jumping over the cliff at once. This book is a work of sanity in a society that is increasingly becoming less democratic and more and more dominated by a small "elite" with big plans for the rest of us--and you'd better fall in line since they know better than anyone and are doing it all for your own good. Honest, brilliant, and sane...no wonder the liberals couldn't tolerate the author's presence on the Supreme Court: He would have classed the dump up!
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Summary: Ramblings of a Bitter Man
Review: This is a sad book. It is a record of a man driven by bitterness, resentment, and defeat. This is unfortunate for the conservative movement, which should be looking for positive images and ideas that move the us forward as a nation. Bork has always been on the extreme right, and those who live on the edges, both liberal and conservative, tend to feel marginalized and resentful. Unfortunately, this manuscript is more insightful about the psychological state of the author than the state of our nation.
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Summary: A conservative masterpiece
Review: So what connection did the 60's riots have to modern trends? And why is political correctness such an unapproachable dogma? Bork goes straight to the core of modern liberalism and pulls out answers, supported by visible evidence, brilliant logic, and his classic, vitriolic, wit. Slouching Towards Gomorrah does, as a cultural analysis, what Bork's other masterpiece, The Tempting of America, does as a constitutional analysis. By exposing inconsistencies and downright lies in the media, politically correct dogma, and intellectual trends, he reveals the modern liberal air castle as what it is: a vicious goal. And by outlining its inevitable results, he scares me to death. 5 stars--this book is well worth reading. Prepare to be challenged to do something to reverse our culture's downward spiral to destruction.
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