Share <Embed>

List Price: $26.99

Save: $9.85 (36%)

FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon or get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

Arrives: Thursday, Jan 28 Details

Fastest delivery: Tuesday, Jan 26
Order within 12 hrs and 51 mins Details

Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
As an alternative, the Kindle eBook is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. Want to listen? Try Audible.

Secure transaction

Ships from	Amazon
Sold by	The L & M Company

Details

Ships from

Amazon

Sold by

The L & M Company

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon or get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

Used: Very Good | Details

Sold by Jenson Books Inc

Fulfilled by Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

$14.67
+ Free Shipping

Sold by: YourOnlineBookstore

$14.75
+ Free Shipping

Sold by: know it all books

$10.81
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: BOOKS FROM CA

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 2 images

Follow the Author

Mark R. Levin

Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America Hardcover – January 17, 2012

by Mark R. Levin (Author)

2,668 ratings

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$11.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$17.14

$9.99

$0.81

Paperback

"Please retry"

$13.94

$11.59

$1.27

Audio CD, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$19.23

$15.23

$1.54

Frequently bought together

Total price: $48.30

These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Show details

Buy the selected items together

This item:Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin Hardcover $17.14
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
Sold by The L & M Company and ships from Amazon Fulfillment.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00. Details
Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future by Mark R. Levin Hardcover $20.00
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
Sold by Jaysam Ventures and ships from Amazon Fulfillment.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00. Details
Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin Hardcover $11.16
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00. Details

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

More items to explore

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Mark R. Levin
4,205
Hardcover
$16.97
Mark R. Levin
3,699
Paperback
$10.19
Mark R. Levin
884
Paperback
$12.99
Mark R. Levin
2,304
Paperback
$12.67
Dinesh D'Souza
3,702
Hardcover
$14.99
David Horowitz
3,372
Hardcover
in Cultural Policy
$24.29

Special offers and product promotions

Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The companion book to Liberty and Tyranny. . . . Levin’s analysis is deadly to liberalism. . . . Ameritopia is historical X-ray vision in book form.”
—Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator

“A must-read for Americans of all political persuasions. . . . An honest discussion of the dangers presently facing our country. . . . Levin does a fantastic job.”

—Jedediah Bila, Newsmax

“Mark Levin has a unique ability to take complex subjects and boil them down to their essentials.”

—Erick Erickson, Red State

“That Levin wrote this book now demonstrates not only his passion for the United States, but his awareness that he is a statesman defending natural law at a pivotal moment in human history. . . . Mark Levin [does] the lion’s share of our shouting—eloquently—with Ameritopia.”

—PJ Media

About the Author

Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk-radio host, host of LevinTV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the FOX News show Life, Liberty, & Levin, is the author of six consecutive New York Times #1 bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, and Unfreedom of the Press. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School.

Product details

Publisher : Threshold Editions; 1st edition (January 17, 2012)
Language : English
Hardcover : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1439173249
ISBN-13 : 978-1439173244
Item Weight : 15 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.44 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #239,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #321 in Political Parties (Books)
- #584 in Democracy (Books)
- #1,009 in Political Philosophy (Books)

Customer Reviews:
2,668 ratings

Start reading Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Customer reviews

5 star		90%
4 star		5%
3 star		2%
2 star		1%
1 star		1%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Amazon Customer

If you value your freedom, please inform yourself with this authors words

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017

Verified Purchase

Highly recommend any books by this author. If you are tired of the liberal mantra seen and heard on the public airwaves & social media, this man will offer you another view that will enlightened the uninformed minds of millions of democrat voters. If people really knew the true actions and history of the democrat party, they would never vote democrat again.

20 people found this helpful

Helpful

The_Ally_of_Orderly_Procedure

This book will involve you in a philosophy course, analyzing utopian vs. republican forms of gov't.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2014

Verified Purchase

Constitutional scholar & expert Mark Levin once said: "The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it." In "Ameritopia," Mr. Levin outlines the existential threat to our Constitution and our republican form of government. He says in the book "...the heart of the problem is, in fact, utopianism,...which is the ideological and doctrinal foundation for statism."

Levin respects his readers and has a great way with words that will keep you wide awake and thinking as you read the book. In the book Mr. Levin notes: "Although the mastermind's incompetence and vision plague the society, responsibility must be diverted elsewhere--to those assigned to carry them out, or to the people's lack of sacrifice, or to the enemies of the state who have conspired to thwart the Utopian cause--for the mastermind is inextricably linked to the fantasy. If he is fallible then who is to usher in paradise."

This book will involve you in a combination philosophy and history course led by Professor Levin and you will learn about the literature (Plato's Republic, Thomas Moore's Utopia, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville and others), giving the reader the background support and discussion for the aforementioned quote. You will also get Mr. Levin's analysis and comparison of the philosophical reasoning behind republican vs. utopian forms of government, and you will get Mr. Levin's additional comments, analysis and opinion relative to the above. When Mr. Levin quotes, explains and summarizes De Tocqueville's thoughts in Chapter 10, he gives warnings that the American Republic is currently experiencing a "soft tyranny" brought about by an overbearing and controlling administrative state. With attribution to De Tocqueville, Levin notes that the degradation of our liberties is being brought about by a "miscomprehension of equality, resulting in the descent into centralized tyranny." In addition, Mr. Levin, in summarizing and further explaining De Tocqueville notes: "Rather than embracing equality as a condition of natural law and inalienable rights, which underlie a free and diverse society, equality may be misapplied politically in the form of radical egalitarianism and to promote equal social and economic outcomes."

As President Calvin Coolidge once said: "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." Coolidge also said: "We review the past not in order that we may return to it but that we may find in what direction, straight and clear, it points into the future." In addition to his keen intellect and writing ability, what is also great about Mark Levin is that he loves his country and is like-minded with Coolidge on these issues.

What I love about Mr. Levin and President Coolidge is that they, like President Reagan are very significant and substantial men. Meticulous and methodical in their approach, what they write is substantive and is supported whenever possible by source documents and supporting literature. Like President Coolidge, Levin doesn't sugar coat anything; he talks to you as a father would talk to his son or daughter, he always tells you the truth, and he never lets you down.

18 people found this helpful

Helpful

jay pister

The great one ...a great book

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015

Verified Purchase

Few persons of the modern age speak and write with such fluid clarity as the great Mark Levin. He sounds angry when he speaks. He writes with force and authenticity . His description of what ails America is well defined .

If groups are allying to take away the foundations of this one great nation or as Ronald Reagan had put it "the shining light on a hill" and we have a personality that sees right through the liberal hypocrisy and the destruction that liberal policies are set to destroy the foundations of our great nation, then the one to put it into perspective is Mark Levin.

I do not go through a single day without thinking of the suggestion of Mark Levin for a constitutional convention where the states can authorize a representative to express the interest of his own state and we can re-write the basics of the agreement by which we live by. The states and the people overwhelming want a return to the constitution . Mark Levin has given us an understanding and an outline for how this could be achieved.

The great one is also the good one. If we could rally around such an inspirational speaker and writer and embrace his very knowledgeable ideas, we could save the nation. from the liberal quagmire into which we are being led. It is not too late and the great one gives us the road map for that achievement.
The you Professor Mark Levin

15 people found this helpful

Helpful

Amazon Customer

Are you kidding me ?

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2020

Verified Purchase

I did not want to gamble twenty bucks on a book that may turn out to be a loser. One reason is that I have heard Levin read passages from his other books, and I have not been impressed. Another reason is that the title is utterly stupid: the meaning is not self-evident, but must be explained, and even then, it still seems stupid.

So I bought a used copy for two dollars.

I gave up trying to read the thing. I find his writing style to be offensive. Rambling. Discontinuous. Peppered with irrelevant information. Difficult to follow.

Needlessly verbose (indicating that he lacks the ability to condense an idea to its essence). Consider the last sentence of his very first paragraph: "The fantasies take the form of grand social plans or experiments, the impracticability and impossibility of which, in small ways and large, lead to the individual's subjugation."

How does that say anything more than "The fantasies always lead to subjugation of the individual" ?

And how could an "individual" be "subjugated" both in "small ways and large" ? Doesn't "subjugation" mean "under total control" ? So how can you be "under total control" in a "small way" ?

And what does the phrase "small ways and large" refer to ? The impracticability etc. ? Or the "grand social plans " ? And why should I need to parse such an awkward passage to answer my question ?

I have a specific suggestion for potential readers. Read the first paragraph of Chapter 1. It is on page 3 of the Amazon "Look Inside" sampler. If you want to wade through 225 more pages of that blather, then buy the book.

I may later write a more detailed review but, really, that would be a waste of my time.

A final comment on his first paragraph. He begins with a definition: "Tyranny, broadly defined, is the use of power to dehumanize the individual and delegitimize his nature."

This statement violates a fundamental convention regarding definitions, namely, that a definition should not contain terms which themselves must be defined. What does "dehumanize" mean ? (Taken literally, it means that the "individual" becomes no longer human. How is that possible ?) What about delegitimize ?

In the legal system, litigators have a saying: "The reader is always right." That means that, if a piece of writing is difficult to understand, it is the author's fault, not the reader's.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Luke

A intelligent insight into how America is being transformed in to a Ameritopia

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2013

Verified Purchase

A very eye opening book into how the American government is transforming America for the worse in to a Ameritopia. Marks uses facts and figures as evidence to help the reader easily understand what an Amerititopia is and provides a solution in how to gain back America.

Gaboora

America's Political Downgrade Mapped Out

Reviewed in Canada on November 14, 2012

Verified Purchase

Ameritopia is the complement of, or the sequel to, Liberty and Tyranny. The flowers of liberty and the weeds of tyranny have their philosophic roots. That is the subject of Levin’s inquiry this time. This is about the origins of what was defined in the preceding book. Since the republic of America has already slipped into soft tyranny, an oppressive form of democracy, if not yet full-blown democratic despotism, these two questions bookend the volume: (1) “What kind of power both attracts a free people and destroys them?” (p. x); (2) “Have too many among us already surrendered or been conquered?” (p. 246.)

Oppressive power attracts people who want to be governed instead of represented (p. 209), even to the point of being told what kind of lightbulb they must use (p. 225), which is just one example of ‘administrative tyranny’ (p. 168.) They want, not equality under the law that recognizes one’s right to self-govern and to reap the fruit of one’s labor (pp. 8, 9), but equality of status through unconstitutional means that are used to plunder the gains of some in order to profit others (p. 121.) They support a tax plan that will ‘redistribute the wealth’ and ‘level the playing field’ (p. 103.) These people have been socially engineered, by reeducation that cuts ties with past customs, traditions, and beliefs (p. 229), to view America as a ‘land of haves and have-nots’ instead of the ‘land of opportunity’ (p. 210.) Communism can work, they argue; it just hasn’t been ‘faithfully executed’ yet (p. 77.) Tocqueville: “It is indeed difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed” (p. 178.) What kind of people will find themselves under the rule of Despotism? Tocqueville: a multitude of men “incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives” (p. 174.) Obviously, not just the Democrats are included here. And both political parties have, by taking advantage of thoughtless, pleasure-seeking citizens, grown more despotic, iron-fisted, and unaccountable. Levin puts the blame too much on one side. The republic will end in Despotism ‘when the People shall become corrupt,’ predicted Benjamin Franklin (p. 243.) What person is not guilty? What party is not guilty? “All that really stands between the individual and tyranny is a resolute and sober people” (p. 246.)

It should be obvious to all, as it seems to be to Levin, that a turnaround by ‘resolute and sober people,’ if it happens at all, will take decades of ‘prodigious effort’ (p. xii.) Levin, probably in the interest of not sounding pessimistic, does not delve into this question like he should. There is no question about it: Americans are presently too corrupt, immoral, and selfish to endure the hardships and privations necessary to getting back on firm Constitutional ground. Freedom from federal power is what the Framers tried to guarantee (p. 243.) But they knew that no guarantee was possible to transmit, especially to a future corrupt society, no matter how carefully the Constitution was drafted and amended. The people don’t need change, like the politicians preach. It is the people that need to change. That is the message that Levin almost, and should have, hammered on.

Like its prequel, this book is well organized. The downgrade from Constitutional conformity to Ameritopia is traced from Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, and shown for what it is by parallels drawn from four utopian schemes that are presented in chronological order: Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. The parallels that are drawn (from one or more of these) should send shivers down the spines of those who still have them: redistribution of wealth, class warfare, reeducation, dissolution of family units, imposed or suggested euthanasia, religious intolerance, the banning of free expression, and unaccountable sovereigns. The American people have the right, from their founding documents, to throw off tyranny (pp. 113, 118.) How may that be done in the present situation? Will the Tea Party increase and retain its integrity? Will it convert enough ‘Pollyanas’ and ‘blissfully indifferent citizens’ to its cause? (p. 247.) Tocqueville (1805-1859) observed in his day, that the hand directing the social machine was invisible (p. 165.) Who can believe that it will be this way again? The choice for Ameritopia continues.

By this one book, a person may acquire a fairly good understanding of what the American republic is, ideally as well as presently. To this end, questions like the following are answered in it: Why were Amendments to the Constitution passed? Why the Bill of Rights? How are the branches of power balanced? Why was a confederate republic adopted? In supplying his answers, Levin takes us all the way back to the men who influenced the Founders in the decisions they made for the good of the nation: John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and Alexis de Tocqueville.

As well, some new questions come to mind from reading this. If Despotism is measured by whether one works to acquire or preserve, as Montesquieu suggests (p. 132), how despotic has America become? In light of the downgrade toward Despotism that has come to pass, what might have been the result if the states had never united? (p. 20.) There had been no Civil War, though slavery would have lingered longer. Can it still be said in America that after choosing his parcel of land, man has left ‘never the less for others’? (Locke, p. 93.) There is an advancing protest from the Left about how the Indian tribes were dispossessed by the pilgrims. Since God gave the world to be cultivated (Locke, pp. 93, 94, 119), do we have a valid reason for dispossession by the more industrious?

There are few propositions that I disagree with. Hobbes erred in his Leviathan. But man is, the Bible, history, and experience confirm, in a state of war naturally. Hobbes is correct here; Locke and Montesquieu err (p. 126.) Virtue is not ‘mostly impossible’ in a monarchy and ‘nonexistent’ under a despot, for we observe much virtue in people under each of these. Montesquieu is wrong here; and virtue cannot be reduced to ‘love of the republic,’ as he says.

Levin’s follow-up to Liberty and Tyranny is instructive, but a lesser work than the first. More digging should have been done to avoid repetitious quoting; more originality should have been attempted. It is worth reading. But I would not read it again except for the places I have marked. Levin’s offering is sober and resolute. If he were more like that himself, he had written more challengingly for the good of everyone.

2 people found this helpful

Sarah Evans

I love Mark Levin but the product is over priced and ...

Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2015

Verified Purchase

I love Mark Levin but the product is over priced and hard listening to as I don't have a college degree.

jeff

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

read it

J. Pettitt

Mark Levin

Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2018

Verified Purchase

Mark Levin is spot on with his knowledge and his wisdom.

See all reviews