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The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962: Reflections on the Remains of My Country

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When did frank and earnest cease being socially redeeming virtues and simply become two middle class white guys relentlessly pursued by the Politically Incorrect Police? When did "doing the right thing" suddenly get a negative connotation? When did work ethic, personal achievement and the honest desire to just get laid get replaced with affirmative action, the Ebonic Plague, and frivolous sexual harassment suits? When did personal effort and motivation become less lucrative than victimization, discrimination, racism, or Syndrome of the Month?

Fred Reed's collection of columns has a way of politely tapping you on the shoulder, saying "Excuse me, but would you look at that?" and then scooping you up into an entertaining, mind-nudging look at how the social re-engineering of America affects us all on a daily basis. These are serious topics presented with such enthusiasm, humor, and clarity that even the most politically apathetic or under-informed reader can't help but smile and mumble "Well, that's the damned truth!"

I bought one for myself and two for friends who also wonder why we might be perceived as P.I. for working hard, opening doors each other, and enjoying gender differences. This is the stuff that the vast majority of us admit to each other. Finally seeing it in print is validating and exciting!

Fred Reed is an ex-marine, former police reporter and ex-columnist for the Washington Post. He is, also, a social analyst with a Southern twang. In his brief, easily consumed, funny-as-hell, essays he inquires into the ills and opportunities of America. He is poignant in is views and his recommendations for fixing our country which has fallen into a state of ill repair. Great, thought-provoking reading.

This is a great book - entertaining, insightful, funny, and thought-provoking - by a superb author. Fred has written for a number of different journals, including Soldier of Fortune and the Washington Times. He has an extremely refreshing, honest style that cuts through the political correctness, liberal censorship, feminist dogma, and racial hypocrisy that surround so many of today's issues. This would be a far better country if Fred Reed were running it. The book is a bargain, and expands on columns on his website. His works on the military, police work, feminism and race in America today, especially on the reparations scam and African-American attitudes, are some of the most accurate, telling, and honest that I've read anywhere. I work in the same general metro area as Fred does, and keep hoping I'll run into him so I can buy him a drink. Until then, I'll keep rereading the book and checking out his website.... Fred Reed is definitely one of those authors who will be highly revered over the years to come. Why not buy his book and enjoy his writing now?

Fred Reed writes with a hillbilly twang, but this hillbilly has a Ph.D. in life thanks to, among other things, the marines and a life in the journalistic trenches. If you've ever suspected that things might be just a bit different from the reality seen by Naomi Wolfe, Dan Rather, and Jesse Jackson, if you've ever suspected that government dispenses favoritism while pretending that it's equality, if you've ever wondered where our leaders are taking us, this is the book for you. Fred Reed often begins his essays like a country lawyer, with the pretense of the uninformed, but then concludes with the kind of insight that our best minds should be capable of, but all too often aren't.

And after you've read it, you can give it to the neighborhood feminist and then take bets on how far she'll be able to read before going into anaphylactic shock.

Amazon said my predicted rating was 4, and they are right. I don't always agree with Fred on everything but he is a great antidote for political correctness. Fred says what most of us think, but are afraid to say. A must read for anyone who feels suffocated by the unrelenting feminization of our country.

Perhaps no writer going these days demolishes the liberal scourge as well as Fred Reed. In this collection of essays from his website, Fred On Everything, this longtime reporter sheds light on the issues confronting America with his own brand of political incorrectness, or "truth" as it used to be called. Although this book does contain some entertaining personal anecdotes, Fred's at his best when he's taking on the conventional "wisdom" propagated by modern America's elites. In witty, down-home prose that's typically as hilarious as it is insightful, Fred dispenses a constant stream of facts and common sense, which is of course the perfect antidote to the drivel spouted by the parasites that inhabit the fringes of our society. Although I'm far younger than Fred and I don't know any America other than the one we live in right now, he does write very convincingly of a culture in decline and the actors who are bringing it down. "The Cultural Vandals Come to Roost," along with Thomas Sowell's classic "Barbarians Inside the Gates," is probably the perfect description of the state America finds itself in these days. Fred hands out plenty of other indictments, as well. He's certainly got some easy targets, ranging from feminists to race hucksters to grief therapists to welfare queens. Fred takes them all on, with the kind of colorful and straightforward writing you won't find in your local newspaper. Want to hear the truth about what we call democracy in this country, and why it doesn't work? Pick up this book. Voting, and why you shouldn't do it? It's right here. Why our schools and universities are such a mess? Fred knows, and he writes about it so clearly that you'll know too. Have you ever suspected that multiculturalism might be a bad idea? So has Fred, and his writing on the subject is the most intelligent and unbiased I've ever read. Basically, unless you insist upon being completely ignorant and deluded for your entire life (a state often glimpsed among those who vote for Democrats), then you owe to yourself to buy this book, and check out Fred's website the first chance you get. I've read some of these essays five times (or more), and they don't get old. I'm morally opposed to voting, but Fred Reed is one guy I wouldn't mind seeing in office.

Fred Reed has done it again. He exposes the drivel dispensed by Dan Rather and others for the truly useless crap that it is. He explains why middle class America is angry and shows why there is such a credibility gap between the so called "elite" and people that most of us consider real Americans.
Entertaining and disturbing.