A wickedly funny collection of letters from Vladimir, a Soviet disinformation expert, to Alex, his young charge, on how to manipulate the American media.
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In the fall of 2010 Dinesh D'Souza was named the President of The King's College, a Christian College located in the Empire State Building in New York City. The mission of The King's College is to transform society by educating students so that they are prepared to shape and lead the strategic institutions.
D'Souza brings to King's a distinguished 25 year career as a writer, scholar and intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as an Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Rishwain Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
Called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily, D'Souza quickly became a major influence on public policy through his writings. Illiberal Education, his first book publicized the phenomenon of political correctness in America's colleges and universities and was on the best seller list for 15 weeks. Subsequent best sellers, include Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, The Virtue of Prosperity, Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, What's So Great About America, Letters to a Young Conservative and What's So Great About Christianity, and The Roots of Obama's Rage. His latest work, Godforsaken, responds to the problem of evil and will be available March 1, 2012.
A prolific, writer, persuasive debater, and sought after speaker on college campuses as well as many other venues, D'Souza has been named one of America's most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times.
D'Souza brings to King's a distinguished 25 year career as a writer, scholar and intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as an Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Rishwain Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
Called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily, D'Souza quickly became a major influence on public policy through his writings. Illiberal Education, his first book publicized the phenomenon of political correctness in America's colleges and universities and was on the best seller list for 15 weeks. Subsequent best sellers, include Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, The Virtue of Prosperity, Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, What's So Great About America, Letters to a Young Conservative and What's So Great About Christianity, and The Roots of Obama's Rage. His latest work, Godforsaken, responds to the problem of evil and will be available March 1, 2012.
A prolific, writer, persuasive debater, and sought after speaker on college campuses as well as many other venues, D'Souza has been named one of America's most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times.
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The Screwtape Letters Travel To Russia!,
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This review is from: My Dear Alex: Letters from the KGB (Hardcover)
In one of his early books, D'Souza attempts to utilize C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters as a technique guide. Although not altogether successful, the book is both clever and even funny at times. While occasionally straying from the C.S. Lewis format, D'Souza left me wondering where he was going with his Russian political tale.
As a post-WWII baby boomer, I was very familiar with the characters (President Nixon, Russian Premiers Gorbachev, Andropov and Chernenko, and the KGB) and the actual historical events, which made the book much more interesting. My Dear Alex is a relatively short book (117 pages) and a very easy read -- could be finished in just one or two sittings. I'm afraid that without being familiar with the historical time period, events and characters, this book may very well lose some of its younger readers interests, and probably won't evoke so much as a snicker, let alone a good laugh. But I could be wrong. Though D'Souza's book has some shortcomings, it is one of his earliest books, if not his very first one. I still consider it an enjoyable read. If you have never read any of D'Souza's books, this one, and his equally short book titled "Letters to a Young Conservative," would be an excellent place to start. As his later books reveal, D'Souza is a very intelligent and articulate author. I recommend this work.
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