The End of America
Naomi Wolf
The New York Times Bestseller
'What makes The End of America remakable is that Wolf manages to overcome ... natural cyncisms, painting a picture of the US that is chilling without being overstated.'
Rachel Hills (Bulletin with Newsweek)'This is highly provocative stuff but it's a highly researched chronicle of the frightening erosions of democratic freedoms. And though it's written as a direct address to US citizens, there should be interest from the Australian market for obvious reasons.'
Lucy Clark (The Sunday Telegraph)'Naomi Wolf's lean-in-and-listen style is irresistable.'
Erin O'Dwyer (Sun Herald)In this timely call to arms, best-selling author Naomi Wolf argues that political freedom in America is under assault. She warns — with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlets — that there is little time to lose if democracy is to be preserved in the United States.
In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and the US Congress, Wolf uses authoritative research and documentation to identify a ‘fascist shift’ in American politics and show how events of the last six years in America parallel steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century’s worst dictatorships, such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.
Wolf illustrates ten classic measures taken by totalitarian regimes to close down a free and open society, and argues powerfully that each of those ten steps is underway in the United States today. In particular, Wolf exposes how the escalation of presidential executive power has eroded the core values of the US Constitution.
The End of America is an urgent and powerful defence of American democracy.
'Naomi Wolf ’s End of America is a vivid, urgent, mandatory wake-up call that addresses momentous issues of tyranny, democracy, and survival.'
Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume Eleanor RooseveltNaomi Wolf
Feminist, social critic, and political activist, Naomi Wolf raises awareness of the pervasive inequities that exist in politics and society and encourages people to take charge of their lives, voice their concerns, and enact change.
Wolf’s landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty, launching a new wave of feminism in the early 1990s. The New York Times called it one of the most important books of the 20th century.
Wolf’s latest book, The End of America: letter of warning to a young patriot, is an impassioned call to return to the aspirations and beliefs of the Founding Fathers. Wolf shows how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships.
She is the author of, among other books, Fire With Fire: the new female power and Promiscuities: the secret struggle for womanhood.
Wolf is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization that teaches young women how to become leaders and agents of change in the 21st century.
A graduate of Yale and a former Rhodes Scholar, Wolf has written essays for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, and The New York Times.
Extent: 192
Size: 210mm x 135mm
ISBN (13): 9781921215841
RRP: $24.95
Pub date: October 2007
ANZ, South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia
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