The top five books that expose the Left:
5. Stolen History by Frantz Emmanuel Kebreau
Kebreau attacks the Progressive Left for rewriting the history taught in our education system. He shows how the left-wing agenda is advanced by their deliberate picking and choosing of what is taught in our schools. I also highly recommend attending one of Kebreau’s presentations on his research. “Your entire view of our social system will change once you hear this information.”
4. Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro
Shapiro reveals how very influential figures in the television industry have deliberately and effectively portrayed their liberal social, economic, and global ideas as righteous while attacking those who oppose them. Shapiro definitely opened my eyes to the widespread liberal messaging in the children programming of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. After reading this book, there is no doubt that Hollywood has successfully waged war on traditional family values in the name of entertainment.
3. Reckless Endangerment by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Morgenson and Rosner expose how the housing bubble came to be by design. A cast of dubious characters enriched and empowered themselves while claiming the noble cause of home-ownership among the low-income. This book names names and what is really infuriating is that many of the people who caused or enabled the economic collapse are still power players in DC or on Wall Street. Your blood pressure is sure to rise while reading this book.
2. Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart
In detailing his conversion from a “default cultural liberal” into a “conservative cultural warrior”, Breitbart shines the light on liberals in the networks and newspapers. Breitbart, as an internet pioneer, gives an interesting account of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, emphasizing how it played out in the media. There is a national conversation that is being driven by the “Democrat-Media Complex,” and Breitbart actively interrupts it by exposing their lies and hypocrisy. I found Breitbart’s book unexpectedly insightful and inspiring. Conservative voices must engage and hold not only politicians but the media to account.
1. Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (4th edition)
Sowell scrutinizes popularly-accepted notions by analyzing the facts. He separates fact from fiction when it comes to incomes, race, gender and more. The media and politicians cleverly perpetuate fallacies by appealing to emotions and interests rather than reason. It reminds me of the popular quote “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it often enough, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Top of my list :: “SECRET KNOWLEDGE” by David Mamet. Riveting ideas, brilliant wordsmithery, biting humor. This newly minted conservative takes aim at his old lefty minions and hits a bull’s eye on virtually every page. One of the best reads I’ve had in years and plan to re-read in 2012.
If you read Breitbart’s “Indignation”, you must finish the couplet with Mamet.