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Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America Hardcover – November 27, 2007

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In this spirited survey of liberal lies and dirty tricks, Brad Miner, one of America's leading conservative insiders, offers a look at the American liberal tradition of slander, insult, and character assassination throughout history. Smear Tactics mines both today's papers and the classic campaigns of history for tales of liberal deception and manipulation. Tracing smears from the early days of our nation right through the run-up to the 2008 elections, Miner highlights the Left's most atrocious campaigns against:

Soldiers: The media's attacks on our troops, from Vietnam to Iraq
The Faithful: The Left's campaign to vilify Christians in American life
Entrepreneurs: Is the American Dream dead? The Left says yes, and Girl Scout cookies, Wal-Mart, and Legos have all played a part.
President Bush: He caused global warming and Hurricane Katrina? Smears against the man the Left loves to hate.

As Brad Miner shows, American politics has never been a sport for gentlemen—but recent campaigns have proven dirtier than ever, full of negative ads, rumormongering, and worse. With the coming election a wide-open race, full of polarizing candidates of all stripes, the mud is about to start flying across the American landscape, and in Smear Tactics Brad Miner returns the fire—with a vengeance.

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288 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Harper
Publication date

November 27, 2007
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6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

0061140147
ISBN-13

978-0061140143
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“Brad Miner has captured the liberals at it again…underscoring how down and dirty the political divide has become.” -- Dick Morris, author of Outrage and Fleeced

“This is a reasonable man’s eye-opening account of unreason.” -- William J. Bennett, author of America: The Last Best Hope

“A passionate cry of protest against anti-conservative defamation―Smear Tactics sets the pulse racing.” -- David Frum, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Right Man and An End to Evil

“You’d better take Brad Miner’s guided tour of smear tactics, because they are all around you. -- Richard Brookhiser, senior editor, National Review

About the Author

The founding editor of the American Compass Book Club, Brad Miner is a former literary editor of National Review and the author of The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia and The Compleat Gentleman. He lives in Westchester County, New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper (November 27, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061140147
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061140143
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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Brad Miner is Senior Editor of The Catholic Thing and was the founding editor of American Compass: "The Conservative Alternative," which was formerly a division of Bookspan, a joint venture of Bertelsmann and Time-Warner that operated most of America's commercial book clubs. His Compass Points blog received recognition in the 2007 Webby Awards.

He is the author of five books, including The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia and The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry. With journalist Charles J. Sykes, he co-wrote and edited The National Review College Guide: America's 50 Top Liberal-Arts Schools. His most recent book, Smear Tactics, was published in November by HarperCollins, and will be released in paperback this August. A new edition of The Compleat Gentleman was published by Richard Vigilante Books in 2009.

He has managed bookstores in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton, held senior editorial positions in New York with both Bantam Books and HarperCollins, and from 1989 until 1992 was Literary Editor of National Review, America's leading journal of conservative opinion. As a book editor, he has published the work of a diverse and distinguished group of authors, including Sidney Hook, Evan S. Connell Jr., Hal Lindsey, Mother Angelica, and Chuck Yeager. He is the author of scores of magazine and newspaper articles.

He has been a John M. Olin Visiting Professor at Adelphi University.

Mr. Miner has appeared on many radio and television shows and has been quoted in articles appearing in The Washington Times, The New York Times, USA Today, Columbia Journalism Review, The Los Angeles Times, Newsmax, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and The American Spectator.

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Exculpatory, not informative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2013

I read this work hoping to gain metaphysical insights into the use of smear tactics - get at root causes of why smear tactics are employed, how they are employed and by whom, based on past and present practices. A few pages of this work attempt to shed light on these questions, but the bulk of the work is exculpatory - it singles out smears employed by liberals in recent years and then debunks them; as if I need to read a book to find out that George W. Bush is not actually a Nazi, or that 9/11 was not an "inside" job by the Bush administration.

The author is a true conservative and has a fine writing style, but the substance of this work fell short, for me.

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