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  • Paperback: 215 pages
  • Publisher: BenBella Books (May 11, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933771429
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933771427
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Lyrical Condemnation of Politically Correct Thought.
By Icedeer on June 16, 2008
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Cry Wolf by Paul Lake is an astonishing book. Not only is it an unflinching look at the destructive nature of political correctness but it also offers the reader a lyrical story telling experience.

In the tradition of Animal Farm, Lake's story unfolds on a peaceful farm that has passed into the care of domestic animals after the death of the human owner. The animals cooperate to solve the problems of sowing and reaping, defense, education, and the creation of a rule of law.

The first law is that of No Trespassing. Fences are maintained and dogs patrol the borders to keep out wild animals that would kill the farm residents or destroy the vital crops. When the animals make a compassionate decision to provide temporary refuge to a wounded doe, they take the first unthinking step toward the destruction of everything they hold dear.

Cry Wolf examines a number of issues that are eroding our ability to think clearly and reasonably. The stifling imposition of politically correct speech, the reframing of issues, the post modern attachment to ethical relativism, and the descent into tribalism through ethnicity are only a few of the issues woven through Lake's haunting story.

You will not only see the teachers, the politicians, the academics, the judges, and the activists in Lake's book - you will see yourself. That sight may be clearer and harsher than you have been used to seeing in a very long time.

Cry Wolf will have you mulling over the creeping suppression of free speech that is slowly crushing dissent in the United States. It will surprise you with its insights into all too human character. It will entrance you with its prose and characters. It will greatly disturb you. It will do what good books always do - it will make you think.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must read for all Americans.
By William R. Forstchen on January 17, 2010
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A must read for any of us caught in the trenches of the war against political correctness. For that matter a wake up call to any American. I think it fair to raise my objections first, but then move on to the praise this book deserves. I am the grandson of immigrants and have taught across thirty years, many of my students first generation and second generation Americans who were eager to embrace what America is. Those who come to our shores and truly embrace the ideals of America, as my grandfather did, and taught me to believe in, then I argue that the lamp is still lit as a sign of welcome. My grandfather was born a German long before WWI, but he became an American, loved America, and died an American, and before he died he taught his children and grandchildren to embrace and love this country. Since our founding America has thrived on the fresh infusions of blood of new Americans, who though proud of the heritage of their past, see in America that shining city on the hill. To them we should all bid welcome. We are not Americans by blood, by race or religion, we are Americans bonded by an ideal of freedom and the founding documents of our Independence.

That said, I will go on to near unstinting praise of Lake's book, though it was hard for the first fifty pages or so to keep track of various characters, but once the "downfall" began, the story became absolutely riveting. I will give no spoilers here, (hate those kinds of reviews!). Sufficient to say that when several of the animals are sent to "Sensitivity Training" to cure them of their "xenophobia" I was truly hooked. . .and as the standard line goes, I did not know whether to laugh or scream.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnimal Farm for our Day and Time
By Jason Carter on December 19, 2008
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As other reviewers have noted, this is the Animal Farm of our day. The book is certainly equal to the task. Cry Wolf is both as observant and as entertaining as Orwell's classic. And for 21st century Americans, it is more penetrating, as the evils it reveals are closer to our gates than the Communism that Orwell combatted.

This is one of those books that I lend out freely and intend to buy several copies to give away.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDeserves to be a classic!
By ReaderThinker on January 6, 2011
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As others have noted, this book is an updated "Animal Farm." This description, however, does it a disservice; this is a far better book than AF ever was, and it goes after more difficult and close-to-home targets.

I never cared for Animal Farm; Cry Wolf partly shares some of those qualities I disliked -- basically, it's not the greatest or most gripping of works from a purely literary standpoint, and it doesn't have as much subtlety and development as I would like to see, although it is superior to AF in both of these regards. I would also like to see a bit more explicit articulation of the book's more complex ideas. Nonetheless it is a great work, an enjoyable one, and potentially a very important one.

Those (like Booklist) who identify Cry Wolf as an anti-immigration fable are missing the book's main points and doing it a disservice. While it can serve as a caution against unchecked immigration, it certainly does not appear to be intended to be an anti-immigrant screed. The author's primary concerns lie elsewhere. Immigration merely serves in the book as a key vehicle through which incautious compassion, myopic self-interest, and political correctness transform a virtuous constitutional republic into a degenerate anarchic tyranny and, finally, a killing field. In the process, the author treats many critical issues of contemporary US (and, broadly Western) politics, society, and culture.

This is the sort of important but easy-read book that I think would be at the top of bestseller lists, and would be widely employed in teaching, if it weren't so discomfiting to the left. Its subtitle should be, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!"
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