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Al Gore: A User's Manual Hardcover – September 17, 2000

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What’s his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United States. Inside these pages, you will find:

     • How Al Gore and his father got on the payroll of one of America’s most ruthless tycoons, Armand Hammer
     • How Al Gore has relentlessly exploited his sister’s death and son’s accident for personal political advantage
     • How Al Gore violated the most basic journalistic ethics by helping the cops run a sting operation on a black politician in Nashville
     • How Al Gore played midwife to the MX missile
     • How Al Gore became a soul brother of Newt Gingrich
     • How Al Gore race-baited Jesse Jackson and introduced George Bush to Willie Horton
     • How Al Gore shopped his vote in support of the Gulf War to get prime-time coverage for his speech
     • How Al Gore pushed Clinton into destroying the New Deal
     • How Al Gore plotted to stop Democrats from recapturing Congress in 1996 in order to keep his rival Dick Gephard from becoming Speaker of the House
     • How Al Gore leached campaign from nearly every corporate lobbyist in DC, and broke pledge after pledge to protect the environment

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Alexander Cockburn co-edits CounterPunch with Jeffrey St. Clair. Together they have written Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and A Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.

Jeffrey St. Clair co-edits CounterPunch with Alexander Cockburn. Together they have written Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and A Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Verso; First edition (September 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859848036
ISBN-13: 978-1859848036
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 7.5 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,080,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5186 in Elections
- #6502 in General Elections & Political Process
- #5896 in Journalist Biographies

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Barry Fortier

And this is what the LEFT thinks of him??

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2007

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I didn't know what to expect when I ordered this small book. It is a bit of a blockbuster.... Endless examples of shameless self promotion, at the expense of family, friends and truth. I wouldn't expect the right wing to be as critical of him, but he seems to deserve it. Sources are not always given, which weakens it, as does the assumption of the authors that everyone is on the same page as they are, for most of their own opinions. Worth it, but could be better.
Amazing, the way some people think it was written by conservatives.

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Chris G

A good biography of a cheap politician

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2001

Format: Hardcover

Find out in this book how Al Gore while vice president helped companies loot millions of acres of our forests, fastened the extinction of the spotted owl, blocked efforts to make companies pay more than little or no royalty fees to loot taxpayer owned resources, helped increase contractor fraud at the Pentagon, helped strengthen the racist and civil liberties destroying criminal justice system, supported drilling off the coast of Mexico and in the National Petroleum reserve in Alaska, supported stripping mining, especially that of the mountain top removal variety, supported the setting of emissions standards well below that of the Kyoto protocol which were never met, helped George W. pollute Texas by his support of Nafta, helped strengthen fossil fuel producers, helped weaken Affirmative action in government, supported the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, supported what will perhaps one day be the destruction of the U'wa people in Colombia through his very extensive relationship with Occidental Petroleum and support for the death squad government there, supported Monsanto's crusade to dump genitically modified foods on Europe, presided over an economy of stagnant and declining wages and greater insecurity for American workers. The list can go on and on.
They give a good outline of Gore's congressional career. They portray him as pro-gun (not too different than Mr. Cockburn's views of course), pro-tabacoo, pro-Reaganite arms buildup (he was a prime mober for the midgetman missle), a consisten support of the Jesse Helms line on the homosexual question, someone who while occasionally roaring against the more blatant corporate criminals turned a blind eye to the radiation tests that gave children leukemia ( killing at least one) at the Oak Ridge nuclear lab in Tennesse and helped establish a precedent by getting a waiver on the Endagered species act against the snail darter species for a worthless dam that only benefited construction and cement magnates. In the 88' campaign he campaigned as right wing demagogue because that is what Patrick Caddell, the pollster, told him what the "silent majority" were looking for. Actually a not insubstantial part of that group was inclined to support Jesse Jackson and Gore did very badly in the primaries but not before travelling to New York for the party elite to help ruin Jackson's canidacy along with the demagogue Ed Koch.
The section on Tipper's crusade against obscene lyrics is rather amusing--the supposed Gore family encounter with the music of Prince which originally spurred Tipper on her crusade and Gore praising the music of Frank Zappa during a senate hearing.
The authors could have done a little less of the "tell-all stuff"==e.g. how policy was supposedly made and interactions in the white house e.g. Bob Woodward's account of Clinton's alleged reaction to having to break his campaign promises and support Alan Greenspan's neoliberalism--and expanded on some of the more important issues. They say absolutely nothing about a very important issue, about Gore's working to pressure African countries, paritcularly South Africa, into complying with drug company patents which block countries from producing genereic AIDs drugs at very substantially lower cost. They repeat the canard about Gore claiming he invented the internet, that he and Tipper were the inspiration for "Love Story" and so on.
But overall this book is so much more substantive than the book put out by Cockburn's former friend Christopher Hitchens. The latter's book was fawned over by the likes of Chris Mathews, David Horowitz and Larry Klayment of Judicial Watch. Rush Limbaugh called Hitchens, a self-declared hardcore socialist, "our favorite liberal." The authors have gotten no such attention and that is very telling.

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Dilemma of Conservative Democrats

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2006

Format: Hardcover

I read this book with a sickening feeling inside of me. Liberals and progressives like me are compelled to support the Republican-lite wing of the modern right leaning Democratic party politicians. Clinton and Gore were not progressives or true men of the people. They did not promote the common good or enhance domestic welfare. The authors forget to mention in their very excellent book that Gore wrote to the airline industry executives and told them that his airline safety initiative would not harm their financial base. Proper airline safety,profiling, baggage checking and secured cockpits would have diminished the probability of Sept.11. Gore is a typical dixiecrat, son of the South, rich man's spoiled son who pandered to defense,nuclear and corporate interests who bankrolled him. The book is truthful,intelligent and compelling. We liberals must stop electing rightist Southern "democrats" who support militarism,intervention and the gutting of the social safety net. The liberal renaiisance of the Democratic party must develop and conservative social darwinism must decline in our nation. Gore is Bush without neoconservative advisors. Let us demand democratic politicians who promote health care,nursing home reform,consumer rights,affordable housing and safe environments. I want to thank the authors for their courage and integrity in writing this painful and troubling book.

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The Orange Duke

A Muckrakers Dream

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2000

Format: Hardcover

This book reveals Al Gore's pervasive dishonesty and rampant hypocrisy. Undermines his phony environmentalism by exposing his close ties with Occidental Petroleum and other polluters. Demolishes his credibility on civil liberties by recalling his actions on behalf of Tipper's PMRC. Attacks his credibility as a `War Hero' by revealing how he used his connections to keep out of danger. Shows his flip-flops even on guns and the choice issue. Clearly establishes Gore as a man who pretends to be everything to everyone while acting as toady for the corporate state. No one could support Gore for dogcatcher after reading this book. It will not be outdated by the election, however, since it serves as an example of the failure of the Democratic Party. Why are there now two big business parties? Because of Democrats like Al Gore. BUY IT.

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Charles Clark

Not a right wing smear

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2000

Format: Hardcover

Far from being a right-wing NRA-loving yellow journalist smear of Al Gore as claimed in another review, the primary author of this book is a radical leftist who writes a column for The Nation and has been a Village Voice contributor.
Look at the other books he has written, and perhaps do a web search for more information about him before deciding this book is right-wing fiction. I think it is all the more telling that prominent journalists of the LEFT such as Mr Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens have written such damning books about Clinton and Gore.
While being somewhat irrelevant given the results of the election, [it is a good buy] for someone who wants to understand the dirty reality behind the fictional images we are presented of leading politicians in the mass media (ie TV).

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