The Devil's Advocate [Hardcover]

Taylor Caldwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1952

Hardcover

Product Details

• Hardcover: 375 pages
• Publisher: Crown Publishers; 1st edition (1952)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006AT0LE
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,665,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful story of America without freedom, a must read!, July 12, 1998

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[e-mail] (Columbus, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil's Advocate (Hardcover)

This is the history of an America that developed differently, a country where citizens gave up their rights and freedom slowly until a communist state developed. Freedom of thought, religion, speech, and democracy are replaced by militia, secrete police, and and a few men's reign of terror. This is the powerful story of the new Minutemen and thier quiet fight to free the citizens of the U.S.A. again.

Read this book and you may see how much of this is actually happening today. You may be startled to see the people around you giving up their liberty and rights to others' control. You may be scared to see our country following a pattern Caldwell wrote about 30 years ago. You may even be offended and angry enough to do something about it... and that's exactly how a Minuteman is born.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prophecy Come True?, November 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Devils Advocate (Paperback)

As mentioned in the other reviews, this book is right on the money! I've read it twice this year, and it is so close to what we have going on in the USA today that it's scary.
If any of us ever have to go underground, this book needs to be taken along as guidance.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real eye-opener..., November 26, 2002

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E. J. Wendel (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil's Advocate (Hardcover)

Unlike Orwell's distant and dismissable prognostication "1984", Caldwell's "The Devil's Advocate" traces a straight line between American Freedom and American Fascism, showing each step in the journey, from ignoring Franklin's warnings about trading liberty for security to the deceptive seduction of liberal socialism. Read this book, and then give it to a friend to read also.