I got my copy of "The Assault On Reason" yesterday - - have you got yours yet?

[AlGore-08.com]

I'm not done reading it yet, so no complete review, but... wow!

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If you've bought a copy or checked it out from your library, please check in!

[jasmeel]

1. I just bought it and posted about it because I didn't know the book

was actually out yet.

[siligut]

2. Just ordered my copy! Thanks for the cue!

Al Gore is doing a brilliant thing, he is reaching the public with his intellect and understanding.

[Me.]

3. Here's A Copy Of The Email The Gore People Sent Today

Al Gore

Dear m,

In the months following the release of An Inconvenient Truth, I began to focus on why our democracy has been so slow to deal with the climate crisis. The unwillingness to solve this problem is not only the result of a lack of political will, but it has also been caused by the emergence of a new political environment dangerously hostile to reason, knowledge, and facts. In the long-term, this poses a threat to the very basis of American democracy: the ability of a well-informed citizenry to use the rule of reason to hold government accountable.

This Assault on Reason is the focus of my new book that goes on sale today.

When George Bush launched his preemptive war in Iraq, more than 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorists who caused 9-11. After the 2004 election, when asked what stuck in their minds about the campaign, voters in Ohio named two ads playing to the fears of terrorism paid for by the Bush Campaign. One pattern that has held true since 2001 is that this White House is less interested in openness and truth than any previous administration.

We are facing so many long-term challenges, from the climate crisis and the war in Iraq to health care and social welfare. To solve these problems and move forward we need to reverse the damage done to our democracy. We have little time to waste.

My goal in The Assault on Reason is to explore why our public forum now welcomes the enemies of reason. More importantly, the book focuses on what we can do together, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason to our democracy.

You can purchase The Assault on Reason by visiting:

http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226

My team will be emailing those of you who live in the cities that I will visit for book signings. I hope that I'll have the chance to see you in person.

I'll be back in touch soon.

Thank You,
Al Gore

[jwirr]

4. I am ordering it.

[Mabus]

5. Picked it up this morning and have been reading it since

The bookstore opened at 9 a.m. We were there shortly after the store opened. We got home and have been taking turns reading and discussing it.

Oh man. What a great book. He's right. He is so right. What a great man.

btw, a K&R so that others can find this thread and check-in during the day.

[Blue Belle]

6. I ordered it on Amazon over the weekend...

hopefully it will get here soon. :)

I just checked the bestseller status on Amazon and Gore's book jumped from number 14 on Saturday to number 4. Best of all, it's edging out the Ray-gun Diaries!!

[helderheid]

7. I'm downloadning it on ITunes and will be listening to it as I do my other work :)

[mnhtnbb]

8. Amazon says my copy has been shipped! And it's # 3 on Amazon.

[Marnieworld]

9. Amazon has shipped it and it's #1 on Amazon now!

Maybe it will be waiting for me when I get home. Yippee!!!!

:bounce:

[mnhtnbb]

11. WOW from #3 to #1 in 2 minutes flat! Wish we could get rid of Bushco that fast.

[mnhtnbb]

I think some of the answers to Gore's concerns just might be addressed

in a book I ordered to read along with Gore's: American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges

Blurb from amazon:

Book Description
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.

Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America. (OP emphasis)

American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use

physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.

[Rob H.]

10. Preordered it a few weeks ago from Amazon.com

It's on its way! :party:

[mak3cats]

12. It's on its way...

I pre-ordered two copies back in February or March. They been shipped, and maybe they're sitting on my back porch waiting for me to get home...

[AlGore-08.com]

13. Kicking it up for the afternoon crowd

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