New Leviathan : How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens Americas Future

English

ISBN: 0307716457

EAN: 9780307716453

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Political Science / American Government / General/Political Science / Political Process / Elections/

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 06/12/2012

Synopsis: At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling au?thor David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribu?tion of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathanover?turns the conventional wisdom about which end of the political spectrum represents the rich and pow?erful, and which represents the people. The Democratic Party presents itself to the electorate as the party of working families and the poor. In the 2000 election campaign, Democrat Al Gore ran on the slogan The People vs. the Powerful, while President Obama describes him?self as a grassroots organizer and a spokesman for fairness and progressive change. Such is the world of political myth. In reality, the Demo?crats and the Obama progressives represent the richest and most powerful political machine in American history. Backed by a near trillion-dollar treasury in Americas oldest and largest tax-exempt foundations, progressives outspend conservatives by a factor of seven to one. In The New Leviathan, David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin examine this growing financial power of left-wing organizations and politicians. They show how left-wing foundations under?wrote the political career of Barack Obama and how massive funding advantages for progressive proposals have disenfranchised American voters and shifted the national policy debate dramatically to the left. The New Leviathandraws connections between the Obama administration and progres?sive organizations from labor unions to media outlets to nonprofits to political groups, and shows how on key policy fronts-national security, immigration, citizenship, environment, and health care-the sheer force of left-wing financial resources has reconfigured the nations political agenda.

New Leviathan : How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens Americas Future

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.18 inches

Width: 6.22 inches

Length: 9.53 inches

Weight: 18.7 oz

Pages: 320