![]() ![]() This angry, funny, smart and contentious book looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, and turns our preconceptions inside out. But I think it’s time to turn out the lights on the Liberal. Journeying through history and across culture, he uses surprising examples ranging from Woodrow Wilson's police state to the Clinton personality cult, the military chic of 60s' student radicals to Hollywood's totalitarian aesthetics, to show that it is modern progressivism - and not conservatism - that shares the same intellectual roots as fascism. Liberal Fascism National Review Liberal Fascism Closing Time Jonah Goldberg AugWell, it was a nice run. Here he destroys long-held myths to reveal why the most insidious attemps to control our lives originate from the left, whether it's smoking bans or security cameras. 27.95 People on the Left who have not yet been rhetorically housebroken, or who have simply forgotten their manners, have a habit of referring to conservatives as fascists. Jonah Goldberg's excoriating, opinion-driving, US bestseller explains why. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg Doubleday. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who thought of themselves as being terribly nice and progressive - the liberals? ![]() ![]() ![]() Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. Jonah Goldberg has ruined what could have been a valuable book. ![]()
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