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J. R. Dunn

Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies Hardcover – January 18, 2011

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Center-right conservative author J. R. Dunn offers a cogent analysis of how liberalism has not only failed as an ideology but has proven fatal to citizens and societies around the world. Dunn’s piercing analysis of the Obama administration’s perilous public policy agenda is a provocative, must-read rallying cry for Tea Party adherents, fans of Ann Coulter and Jonah Goldberg, or anyone concerned about the left’s deadly impact on the future.

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Dunn, a novelist and military encyclopedist, indicts liberals for interventionist big-government policies that have sparked "mass negligent homicide." He finds fault with fuel-efficiency standards that promote unsafe small cars, environmental regulations protecting mountain lions, and the phase-out of ozone-depleting chloro-fluorocarbons. The author makes a cogent case against several misguided government policies, from destructive urban renewal schemes to asbestos-abatement hysteria, but inflates the particulars into an attack on liberal "rationalism," the desire to use reason to solve human problems and a refusal to acknowledge that "this is not a universe governed by logic." Insufficient citations and such claims as "no one goes without care" in the U.S." sap the book's authority and might well prevent Dunn's own "well-meaning" arguments from finding wider credence. (Jan.)
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Despite humane principles aimed at advancing rights and providing for basic human needs, liberalism has actually harmed more than helped the helpless and needy, argues Dunn, a commentator for the center-right website American Thinker. Dunn highlights the history of liberal impulses back to the Founding Fathers and earlier, and he pinpoints when modern liberalism went astray, taking on ever more social issues and developing government policies to cure them. In the U.S., liberalism went wrong with the New Deal, when it transformed itself from principles to ideology. According to Dunn, liberal policies have led to rising crime, increased abortion, and other social ills that have triggered unintended consequences and led to the deaths and suffering of thousands. To construct cautionary examples of government overreaching to improve general welfare, Dunn draws parallels with benign government policies gone wrong in Nazi Germany, the USSR, the People’s Republic of China, and other nations not generally considered to have much in common with the U.S. While Dunn’s claims are a bit outrageous—for virtually any political ideology will lead to unintended harm—his perspective is interesting. --Vanessa Bush

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More Americans have been killed by well-meaning liberal policies than by all the wars of the last century combined. J. R. Dunn not only analyzes the unintended consequences of liberal policies, but argues that these consequences have resulted in millions of fatalities in the United States and around the world.

Liberalism sees itself as a rational and helpful philosophy that seeks to use the benign power of the government to improve our safety, health, and general welfare. In doing so, it relies on the authority of experts to devise the most rational means of realizing these goals. Unfortunately, when these well-meaning plans go awry, as they too often do, the results can be disastrous, even deadly. As J. R. Dunn persuasively argues in this thoroughly documented book, death by liberalism occurs in all fields and at all levels of society. Motorists, workers, even children taken under the state's protection—all have fallen victim to liberal policies. What's more, the numbers are staggering. Liberalism can be implicated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in this country, and millions worldwide.

Dunn's detailed and deliberative account takes no cheap shots but relies on well-established facts to show liberalism's fatal consequences in numerous aspects of our lives—from crime and abortion to fuel-efficiency standards and the banning of DDT, from gun control to urban renewal. Dunn also pinpoints areas in which liberal interventions in the making are likely to produce more suffering and death, such as legal euthanasia, and identifies some of the leading liberals—including George Soros—behind the spread of these lethal initiatives.

About the Author

J. R. Dunn is the author of three novels, This Side of Judgment, Days of Cain, and Full Tide of Night, and his work has been published in various magazines and anthologies. He has been an associate editor of The International Military Encyclopedia since 1992, and is now a contributing editor for American Thinker.

Publisher : Broadside Books; 0 edition (January 18, 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0061873802
ISBN-13 : 978-0061873805
Item Weight : 1.04 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,748,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Henry Kadoch

A searing indictment of Liberal Policies

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2014

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The most readable indictment of Liberal policies I have read in a long time. It deals primarily with the mortality of the policies, but displays many more of their failings as well, which are all very clearly presented. For the "classic democrats," it is perhaps the warning bell that "their" party has been taken over by extremists with genocidal tendencies, using the same methods as the great killers of the twentieth century used, but couched in palatable, even desirable, language and apparent intent. This should be the wake-up call for Democrats to create their own "tea-party" to topple the 'progressives' that have taken over the party of JFK.

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Richa

One can assume they are pretty far right

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017

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Made me more aware that the left has an ideology as well as the right. I was not impressed with his expressions of near hatred for liberals and he didn't really suggest an alternative to liberal policies. One can assume they are pretty far right. It's too bad that neither the left nor the right demonstrate much tolerance or willingness to LISTEN!

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Dirk Manley

A short, easy to read summary of liberalism's faults

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2013

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While this book didn't provide me with a lot of new information, I came to the conclusion it provides a clear concise and short overview of the crimes against humanity that liberalism has perpetrated. It actually is a very good book for someone looking to give to a mushy moderate that can't seem to understand what liberalism is or has done. I think there is a big audience for this book.

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C. ONeill

Liberal Policies Fail, Here's the Proof

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015

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Dunn has compiled all the evidence needed in one book to prove how Liberalism has been a complete and total failure. Every policy, every promise has had the opposite effect than what the liberals promised. Every ill in America and in fact the world, can be traced to liberal policies. This book connects the dots. A must read.

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S. Contreras

Like Michael Savage says

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017

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I got interested in the author because of his well written and insightful articles on American Thinker. I have learned some new things about how liberalism does what the title says. Like Michael Savage says: "Liberalism is a mental disorder" and this book shows many ways that this is the case. Unfortunately the ones who need to read it the most won't.

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Salvador Jimenez

Clear and concise

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013

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J. R. Dunn's writing is to the point. The book is presented in an easy to follow format tying the failed liberal programs to their horrible outcomes.

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Bigron

Its a wake up call for many!

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2011

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JR Dunn does a masterful job on the reality of the world we live in versus the mythical Lost Horizon Shangri-La world of idealist! Specifically, liberal minded elitist intellectuals and power hungry politicians/leaders. The reality of controlling people to equalize all in everything without actually earning it in mind boggling.
History tells the tale - all we have to do is read!

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sean koontz

Good

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2015

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