With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the crackup of the Soviet Union, who would have thought that America faces a greater socialist threat today than it did during the heyday of the Cold War? In this riveting and alarming essay, Lynne Cheney,Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, exposes the blatant politicization of America's universities and schools. Read how Marxist and feminist scholars are stifling the free expression and exchange of ideas and how they are openly attempting to revolutionize American society through the classroom.
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Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986-1993 Editor, Washingtonian Magazine, 1983-1986 Kings of the Hill: How Nine Powerful Men Changed the Course of American History,second edition, coauthor, 1996 Telling the Truth, 1995 The Body Politic, coauthor, 1988
New York Times
Newsweek
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Christian Science Monitor
Cohost, CNN Crossfire Sunday, 1995-1998
PBS NewsHour
ABC This Week
CBS 60 Minutes
NBC Today Show Lectures before national audiences on educational reform and cultural issues Has testified before congressional committees Ph.D., 19th century British literature, University of Wisconsin
M.A., English, University of Colorado
B.A., with honors, Colorado College
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Tantalizing Appetizer-Where's the Main Course?,
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Lynne Cheney's 15-page delivery is trenchant and engaging as expected from any presentation she gives. She zeroes in on the dangers of political correctness and engagingly sites a string of invidious examples currently raging at American universities. However, why this one speech was issued as a stand-alone work is curious. It is short enough to have been reprinted as a thought provoking magazine article or would have been a powerful chapter in a collection of similar orations published in book form. As an isolated speech it leaves the reader wanting much more. The wife of America's next vice-president has too much to say and has provided far too many brilliant speeches and essays for them to be offered on an individual basis like this.
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Know Your Enemy,
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This review is from: Academic Freedom (Paperback)
This piece of pseudo-academic drivel could almost be taken for parody if it wasn't for the fact that it was written by the Vice-President's Wife. It is quite astonishing to read this at the moment with the current drive to destroy a country already crippled by both a dictatorial leader and UN sanctions When Cheney finally comes to the opinions of the academics that she is so obsessed with critcising, it is hard to imagine how any sane person could seriously complain when campus members are chanting "Make Peace, Not War". The article is concerned with a desire to teach Americans about their nation's history - although it seems from this, that her nation's history is the very last thing that she wants anyone to discuss. The fact that these views effectively sum-up those of the current US administration is utterly terrifying and is another reason why everyone with a brain should read this in order to know the truly vile opinions dominating a vile administration in the world's most dangerous nation.
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more mindless drivel,
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This review is from: Academic Freedom (Paperback)
it you want to be a shrill conservative, fine.. but please don't have the audacity to try and pass it off as scholarly.
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