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Fanatics & Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America Hardcover – April 14, 2004

by Arianna Huffington (Author)
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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A scathing critique of the American political system looks at how America's political leaders on a state and national level have cheated and deceived voters and how political corruption has disenfranchised Americans of all political beliefs. 150,000 first printing.
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  1. Print length
    384 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Miramax
  4. Publication date
    April 14, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1401352138
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1401352134
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3.8 out of 5 stars
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C. Matthew Hawkins
5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Companion for Today's Political Landscape
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2004
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Huffington's "Fanatics and Fools" is an excellent companion for the 2004 election year, and beyond.

In this book, Huffington does the following:

1. She lays out the case for viewing the neo-conservative threat to America as one of fanatics who, without regard to facts, are making a disaster of America's economic life and foreign policy. She also provides profiles of key neo-con players.

2. She removes the facade of "compassionate conservatism" worn by so-called "moderate" Republicans, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and George W, and exposes the bread and circus nature of their campaigns and the real intention and effects of their policies.

3. She shows us what has gone wrong, within the Democratic Party, that prevents this party from playing an effective role in countering neo-con fanaticism -- and she shows how to fix the blurred vision and short-sightedness of the Democrats.

4. She adds sidebars of humor that help to lighten up a heavy topic, while still driving home the nature of the political crisis we are currently in.

5. She offers a blueprint to serve as a national agenda, drawing on the best progressive traditions of both the Democratic and the Republican Parties.

This a book that anyone who is interested in understanding the present and building a future for our country should read.
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Mary D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2014
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Wonderful book!
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Tracy Marks
4.0 out of 5 stars Much valid criticism but not enough game plan!
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2004
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Arianna Huffington as always is informative and accurate in her scathing criticism of the Bush regime and the damage Bush and cronies are doing to the people of America and the world.... and anyone who does not yet intellectually and emotionally grasp the reality (indeed the horrors) existing under the rhetoric of our current government will benefit from reading this book. But having just previously read Senator Byrd's excellent LOSING AMERICA - which focused on the facts and Byrd's deeply felt and profound observations (in his case, of the power tactics, lack of conscience and integrity, and vicious partisanship he has witnessed among many of our Congresspersons) without ranting and name-calling, I found myself frustrated with Huntington.

Clearly the left needs its Huntington's and Franken's and Moore's - and I value all three of them. But Huntington is more likely to provide confirmation and an outlet for anger for those already strongly anti-Bush, while turning off the undecided with inflammatory language. Not all of us are empowered to political action by nonstop ranting. The realities speak for themselves. Let the reader learn of them, feel his or her own anger rather than react to the authors, and feel mobilized as a result to take action for new political alternatives. Too much ranting can leave one emotionally exhausted and depressed rather than empowered to help bring in a new government.

The Left also needs more specific clarification of its vision and agenda, and this book does not provide that in more than a few pages. After reading many anti-Bush books, I bought Huntington's latest because of the subtitle, "The Game Plan for Winning Back America". But the "Game Plan", in the simplest form, was really a brief addendum to a book which focused almost entirely on what is wrong, rather than what we need to make right and how to do it.

I do not however want to dissuade readers from buying and reading this book. The more you learn about what's really going on in this country and its effect on the world and future of this planet, the more appalled you may be... and the more committed to helping bring about a new Democratic regime. If you are wanting to learn more about what's wrong, read this book (and Hightower's Thieves in High Places, Hartmann's We the People, Derber's Regime Change Begins at Home and People Before Profit, and Byrd's Losing Ground - all which I preferred). But once you know what's wrong and are well-informed enough to share it with others, and once you have lived in your outrage long enough to want to channel your anger into commitment and vision, you may then be ready for a Game Plan for America which goes beyond Huntington. You might then wish to read John Kerry's Call to Service and Plan for America. They at least provide the seeds which can eventually blossom into a new kind of government, one which serves the needs of its people, in action as well as words.
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Mark Nuckols
1.0 out of 5 stars Proof Anyone Can Get Into London School of Economics
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2004
I've met the type before: pompous blowhards who let it slip that they've attended the LSE. Well, (setting aside the intellectual sins of the Webbs and other silly fabians) it turns out that LSE will take just about anyone willing to pay full tuition, which is how they subsidize the students they really want to recruit. In return, these rich kids get to blather on forever about that scintillating course on The Rise of the Working Class or some such nonsense they took and which they beleive entitles them to tell you their opinion on any subject, no matter how poorly thought out that opinion is. Ms. Huffington is an exemplar of this sort, and I had only to scan this book at the local bookstore to confirm my opinion that she's another long-winded blather machine, spitting out empty rhetoric and cheap slogans for the zealots who cling to her every idiotic word, hoping they too can appear sophisticated and cosmopolitan even as they get drunk on populist punch. Egads, if we had the kind of populist movement Ms Huffington purports to want, it would make the mob murder of Leo Frank (see Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel) seem like a garden pic-nic. In fact, Ms. huffington is the mirror image of President Bush - another rich dumb bunny, but she really seems to believe she knows something profound, whereas as least W knows he ain't all that smart. Take a pass on this book and read some Evelyn Waugh.
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