Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: The New Liberal Menace in America (Paperback)

~ Stephen Marshall (Author)
Key Phrases: scarring moment, economic hit men, liberal virus, United States, New York, Democratic Party (more...)

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Review

Marshall cuts into the bleeding heart of liberalism to expose the apostates and the apostles. A guidebook to the perplexed of Gen X and Y - who to trust, who to trash. -- Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Marshall takes on some of the biggest names in liberal thought and leaves them bleeding from their own contradictions and posturing. -- Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org

Marshall's mélange of storytelling, travelogue, and fresh analysis is riveting. Wolves stirs the brain and the heart, making you impatient for all your friends to get reading so you have someone to talk to. A fantastic read. -- Frances Moore Lappé, author of Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life

Marshall's skillful narration and willingness to go seemingly anywhere for an interview make Wolves in Sheep's Clothing eminently readable. -- Austin American-Statesman

Product Description

Forget the neoconservatives. As the Democrats retake Washington and progressives think they can pull the U.S. back from the brink, Stephen Marshall's up close and personal investigation finds that the biggest threat to Western democracy is the U.S. liberal elite.

In the tradition of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Marshall, Sundance-award winning director and co-founder of Guerrilla News Network, hits the road and travels from the front lines of the Iraq War, through the wasteland of the former communist Eastern bloc, into a coke-dusted sex party of Britain's intellectual elite, and into the minds of America's most influential liberal figures.

Marshall recounts his meetings and conversations with Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, David Horowitz, Lewis Lapham, John Avlon, the Economist's John Micklethwait, the Guardian 's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and best-selling authors Naomi Klein, Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and John Perkins.

He finds that American liberals have dumped the '60s era radicalism of their youth and become complicit in a complex game of bait-and-switch, selling the world a vision of liberal democracy in which they, in fact, no longer believe. Have liberals buckled under the pressure of America's declining fortunes and taken on the role of good cop to the conservatives' bad?

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: The Disinformation Company (April 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932857427
• ISBN-13: 978-1932857429
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #925,659 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How liberalism lost its soul, June 3, 2007

By	Aaron Taylor (Jefferson County, Missouri) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Don't let the title fool you. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing is not a neo-conservative diatribe against bleeding-heart liberals who don't toe the party line with the current administration in the White House. Rather, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing is about the anti-establishment leaders who protested the Vietnam War, but are now willing to go to war to advance the cause of free-market capitalism. Without providing cookie-cutter solutions to the world's problems, Marshall probes the deeper questions regarding liberal interventionism and laissez-faire capitalism that are currently lost in the facade of today's culture war, which, according to Marshall, is simply a masquerade to keep the public from discovering that both parties are part of the same corporate industrial establishent. Not only does Marshall provoke the reader to ponder the place of authentic liberalism in contemporary American politics, he also challenges the reader to re-examine the messianic complex that many Americans have regarding America's role in spreading freedom and democracy to the world. This is a must-read for those who wonder why the vast majority of the non-Western world resist America's version of liberal democracy.

Aaron D. Taylor, author of Alone with A Jihadist: A Biblical Response To Holy War

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read, August 23, 2007

By	Nicholas L. Nienaber (Crooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the story of the death of American Liberalism, told by some of the very people who helped kill it. Far from the typical liberal claptrap or conservative diatribe, Marshall's fiercely independant examination of the left's rightward drift is a unique, character driven narrative that keeps you turning pages.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Icon, December 11, 2007

By	Shae Dlyn "Shae D'lyn" (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I feared that by exposing the Democrats as faux liberals, Stephen Marshall would bring me into even a deeper state of despair. As I read, I found myself in just the opposite state -- happily taking in every page with new hope that there exists here in America this level of awareness and acuity and most importantly, passion. If this man understands society on this level, there is the possibility of nurturing and spreading this wisdom. I find I have someone to follow. If you need something to believe in, read this book.