America's Conscience: Facing Threats to Democracy, the Middle Class and Our World [Hardcover]

Bernadette T. Vadurro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2007

America's Conscience explores the insidious pathways by which our nation arrived at where we are today. Not since the Civil War have Americans been so divided on so many issues. From national security to the wars in the Middle East, to abortion, to gay marriage, to education, to climate change, Americans are polarized. Readers will discover how secretive, intentional, and insidious forces have purposefully divided our nation in order to push through a radical agenda that most Americans would never have agreed upon. This book tells the story of how a distracted patriotic and somewhat fearful American public was bamboozled by powerful influences that successfully manipulated, hijacked, and then shifted American policies for gain and profit. Sadly, while the future of the nation is compromised, the American media delivers silly stories of distraction. Presenting the facts in a clear and objective way, the reader will become better informed and prepared as a citizen.

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About the Author

Bernadette T. Vadurro is a business consultant who has trained professionals in the art of effective leadership and communication. She has worked with the employees of government agencies, businesses, and corporations for more than 20 years. While traveling the United States, Vadurro recognized that vast numbers of Middle Class Americans had developed strong political biases and tendencies to blame our nation's problems on the media, morality, religious fanaticism, politics, socialism, and/or capitalism. With an avid personal passion for politics and as one of the highest rated professional speakers in the country, Vadurro has taken her platform talents in educating, motivating, and inspiring people and put them into the pages of America's Conscience.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Speakers Live Books (June 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979358000
• ISBN-13: 978-0979358005
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,823,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great place to start, and an important resource if you've already begun..., August 12, 2007

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Reggie Marra "Integral Journeys" (Naugatuck, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: America's Conscience: Facing Threats to Democracy, the Middle Class and Our World (Hardcover)

Bernadette T. Vadurro's "America's Conscience" is a great place to start reading for anyone who is just becoming aware that the neoconservative power structure that has orchestrated George Bush's presidency serves neither Americans nor the rest of the world well. And it's a valuable resource for readers who, already aware, would benefit from having facts, figures, sources, and resources at their fingertips in a single volume.

The author has organized and assembled a dizzying volume of information, documented each of the twenty chapters with notes, and provided the reader with wide-angle views of everything from endless war to those elusive WMDs; from spinning stories to outright lies; from quieting dissent to an often lazy media; from who gives money to whom to the impact of the contributions. And more.

Transcending the extremists on the political left and right who don't let research or fact interfere with their respective agendas, Vadurro constructs her argument with reason, backs it with documentation, and, in my reading, essentially asks Americans, "Is this what you want?"

"America's Conscience" provides intelligent, concerned and open-minded American citizens, regardless of political affiliation or lack thereof, with verifiable evidence to back up the cliched, but nevertheless accurate slogan, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."

The author has paid and is paying attention. Her book calls on the rest of us to do the same.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the most important political book for every American to read, June 28, 2007

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Deborah Potter (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America's Conscience: Facing Threats to Democracy, the Middle Class and Our World (Hardcover)

America's Conscience cries out for the average American to wake up and question authority! You will be inspired to critically evaluate the "common knowledge" as Bernadette Vadurro exposes the truth behind the rhetoric in Washington. Her thoughtful analysis clearly explains the urgent need for our political leadership to reflect the will of the people. America's Conscience is screaming to be heard.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here are the facts. Draw your own conclusion., December 16, 2007

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James N. Post (Albuquerque, NM, United States) - See all my reviews
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America's Conscience
Bernadette T. Vadurro

Whether you support or oppose the so-called Neo-Conservatives in American government, this is a book well worth reading, guaranteed to be eye-opening, cage-rattling, and pointedly informative from page to page. This is not the angst-driven opinionated rant we see so often in books about the American scene. Moving coolly and rapidly through some very complex and turbulent subject matter, America's Conscience is a stimulating analysis of the rise of the political movement which has swept the halls of power in Washington DC, and has committed our future to extreme peril in pursuit of a world American hegemony.

Though this analysis is focused to reveal the movement clearly, and to show the author's viewpoint, it is not biased, or burdened with personal views. It is researched, documented, and footnoted like a Masters thesis (or so I would presume, as I don't hold the degree). As a literary work, it is trimmed and sleek, and with its many tight sidebars, it enables the reader to absorb a lot of information in a very fast read.

Those who agree with the fundamental axioms and objectives of the Neo-Conservative movement, in both domestic and foreign matters, will likely be pleased to see so well documented how deliberately, and for how long a relatively small association of colleagues have been working to bring about events which have forever changed our world. They will be pleased to know those patriots do not hesitate to use whatever means, methods, or misinformations are necessary to accomplish what they have begun.

Those who disagree will likely find reason in these pages to consider the Neo-Cons to be a gluttonous cabal of military-industrialists who have wrapped themselves in the Flag and seduced both Christians and Jews into getting into bed with them, who have lied to the Congress, the press, and the people to enable their agenda, and who have committed the lives and fortunes of all of us to that militant global marketing campaign. They will be astonished to see how openly this fraternity of political extremists and industrialists has been declaring its ideology and systematically acting to bring about a world objective, of which the war in Iraq is only one step, and control of the American mind by market manipulation through a symbiotic media monopoly is only one tool.

In America's Conscience, Bernadette Vadurro focuses the spotlight on the motivation and actions of this small but powerful group of leaders, like Toto drawing back the curtain to reveal who has been pulling the strings and giving the orders. Even so, it is neither an indictment nor a call for opposition. It is an invitation, an exhortation to examine certain things closely and realistically, and then to decide for yourself how to best respond to what they reveal, in the most positive and productive manner you can. As an exhortation to those who, like myself, I confess, have felt politically disenfranchised and socially disconnected, her message is refreshingly optimistic.

James Nathan Post
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