Makers and Takers: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and
by Peter Schweizer
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Author: Peter SchweizerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 038551350X
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Doubleday
Book Reviews of Makers and Takers: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and
Book Review: a right good book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a breezy, eye-opening page-turner. Apparently my whole life I've been leaning left and never realized it! I guess it all happened in school; I was an educational by-product of the 70s. A living example of an inculcated indoctrin?e. Until now.
Schweizer brilliantly grabs the reader's attention by reciting mainstream media's insidious and unchallenged commentary on (among other descriptors) "mean," selfish, greedy, gun-loving conservatives. Then the fun begins as he brilliantly begins to unravel the myths -- as gently and easily as if he were unraveling a knitted scarf, loop by loop. Revealing them as flat-out untruths (a term which Schweizer knows liberals know all too well).
As one example, Vanity Fair editor James Wolcott's contention that the interior "red" states are a depressing home to higher incarceration, suicide and illegitimate birth rates is immediately invalidated by Schweizer's deft observation that Wolcott's statistics are skewed (by the simple fact that the culpable blue counties within these red states had been overlooked). The book quietly and confidently revels in further observations such as this. (It's a shame the book was published before Florida Democrat Tim Mahoney could take his place in the corner beside Republican Mark Foley, who is mentioned in passing. Perhaps there'll be a sequel.). Schweizer knocks down one argument after another until the reader is absolutely convinced of the author's claims that conservatives ARE more generous, more productive, better informed, calmer, happier and more ethical than liberals. And nicer to their mothers. Liberals are, in fact, the jealous and sinister younger sibling of conservatives (I swear -- it didn't dawn on me what sinister actually meant until after I wrote this sentence!).
Schweizer provides no shortage of concrete examples to support every aspect of his thesis: that conservatives are the makers and liberals are the takers in our society. As a work, Schweizer's prose is clean, straightforward, intelligent, logical, well-researched and supported by copious documentation (despite at least one instance where I was disappointed not to find an actual endnote (the above Wolcott example)).
Are we in the midst of a counter counter-culture? Are we taking a right turn back to that fork in the road that led us astray?
Perhaps the time is right.
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