NYT Books in Review: “The Enemy at Home,” “The Race Beat,” “The Averaged American”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, by Dinesh D’Souza

“America will be safe…if only we get rid of the leftists…The aging enfant terrible of American conservativism seems to have a soft spot for Osama bin Laden.”

Actually, D’Souza’s entire premise is moot if, as many of us suspect, 9/11 was a “false flag operation” in which certain U.S. government agencies and officials were complicit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Arsenault.t.html?pagewanted=print

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

“How the American press reported the civil rights movement…After ignoring the story for years, the news media came to play a major role in the struggle for civil rights.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Stossel.t.html?pagewanted=print

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Sarah E. Igo

“How the social sciences have changed the way America thinks of itself…The ‘Middletown’ study, Mencken wrote, was ‘as exhilarating as even the dirtiest of new novels.'”

 

 

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