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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.932
EAN: 9780061771040
Edition: First
ISBN: 006177104X
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 01, 2009
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Studio: Harper
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There's a lot of information in CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Unfortunately, this information is full of facts and figures that do NOT bode well for the average U.S. citizen -- or, in fact, the citizens, (or residents -- legal or illegal), of any country on this planet! ) :
Well-written, easy-to-understand, and full of facts, dates, places, and NAMES of those, (especially in the U.S.A. -- but international, as well), that want to take away the freedom of most people, and replace it with socialism, (even though THAT didn't work at all in the former Soviet Union...which finally collapsed FROM WITHIN), health-care rationing, government control of YOUR MONEY(!), government-edict-run schools, elimination of conservative talk-radio....and other horrors which can easily be found in "1984"!
UNFORTUNATELY, HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT A WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION! IT is, sadly, what is on the verge of happening RIGHT NOW! Forewarned is fore-armed, they say -- and this book gives as much information as anyone can have in one, easily-read volume, to the individual citizen. It's SO terrifying, one might not want to read it at all -- but Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann didn't write this book to scare us -- they wrote it so we can learn what the "powers that be" want to do to us...and, in the last chapter, tell us all HOW TO FIGHT BACK!
This book is full of emphasised, grey "boxes", in which are highlighted various super-important facts. If you read nothing else in this book, READ WHAT'S IN THESE BOXES!
The print in this book is nice and large, (at least in the hardcover edition, from which I write this review), and, as mentioned before, the book is written in a style easily understood by the intelligent lay-person. However, the paper is of a much poorer quality than would be expected, (did the Obama Administration allow it to be published, on the stipulation that the paper not be acid-free -- or was the publisher, Harper-Collins, just trying, sadly, to save money?). The book is well-bound, with cloth edge-binding, (though not, sadly, sewn into signatures). The buyer of this book can, however, cover the three open edges of each paper with yellow, red, orange, or green coloured marker-pens, which will keep sunlight from destroying the pages for a longer time. (This was something done with all PAPERBACK books about 30 years and more ago -- somethng I recommend doing to, (and for!) ALL books, not made of acid-proof paper, now!)
Sadly, too, this otherwise excellent book has no index. I am sure that many people -- whose attention-spans, like my own, have been blasted to smithereens by watching, for 20 years or more, the 3-commercials-every-15-minutes-or-so, that has become routine for TV watching -- go right to the index of important, non-ficition books like this, to go right to the pages of the facts most crucial to themselves. Even an un-annotated index would have been VERY welcome in this book!
Actually, there is SO much information -- indelliby CRUCIAL information -- in this book that it difficult to summarize it in this review. But easily-read summaries of the contents are on the books covers, (front and back), on the front and back flaps.
I've often wondered, through the years, how it must have felt to be an American Colonial, before and during the American Revolution. I think that I know how it felt now -- it was a totally terrifying experience! Thomas Payne's words, "These ae the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will shrink from...." echo in my mind. As do the individual colony's mottos, such as "Don't Tread On Me". Thomas Jefferson said: "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." And Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would exchange freedom for security will have neither." (!) Prescient people, Jefferson and Franklin -- wonder what they'd do today? In my own estimation, I feel they would have become Libertarians, and support Dr. Ron Paul and Senator Mike Gravel, as I am doing. But this is just supposition. Without an index, it's hard to tell if Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have mentiioned these excellent, present-day fellows in their book. But I'm sure they'd agree!
In sum, this book crystalizes and expands upon some words a friend of mine once said to me: "1984 came 20 years later". Read this book. Become outraged as I have been....and DO the things suggested towards the end of it. Freedom is at stake here -- your freedom and mine. Or -- would you rather have a mandatory RFID chip planted, knowingly or unknowingly, somewhere on your body?
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"Catastrophe" brought corruption of our government into the forefront of my mind. It has changed my thinking about how I view our politicians and leaders of our country. J.M. LoCaste
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This book is a great read. I read it a couple of months ago while I was also reading Malkin's Culture of Corruption, so I get the two a little confused. It's nice to have a former Clinton administration insider tell of what has been going on the last 15 years or so. It's somewhat sad that Morris had to further some agendas before realizing the consequences of his support of Clinton/democratic policies. I found Bill Clinton's multi-million? (I don't think it was billion, well, I hope not) mistake with the Gulf's oil contracts to be quite reflective of his administration. Anyway, this is a great book and the material is stated simply and perfectly. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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This is one GREAT book,its a real eye opener, Dick Morris is right on the money. Excellent reading.
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This book is very revealing and tells the truth of which most of the liberal meadia will not report. News and Media as we once knew it is DEAD. Dick Morris tells it exactly like it is.
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