What's So Great About America
by Dinesh D'Souza
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Author: Dinesh D'SouzaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-24
ISBN: 0895261537
Number of pages: 218
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Book Review: "The Truth about America"
Summary: 5 Stars
Dinesh D' Souza's "What's So Great About America" is an insightful handbook which calls to the fore the many issues that America is facing today as a result of its own greatness. First off, D' Souza compares America to the Athens of old and explains just how with our fight against the Islamic fundamentalists, we are facing a new kind of Sparta. He succinctly and sincerely delineates all the reasons why the fundamentalist factions within Islam hate us so much, and ultimately creates an eye-opening perspective, since the author places you in the shoes of the Easterner and allows you to see our situation in a different light. Since the author is a native Easterner himself, it is interesting to see how he sizes America up culturally with the countries of his native land. Dinesh D' Souza, moreover, discusses some aspects of America's past such as slavery, colonialism, and racism, in order to refute leftist intellectual groups, which believe that America has been nothing but an oppressive society, forcing its western ideals and values upon other peoples just to make a dollar. He shows how, in comparison with civilizations in the past, that America is the only society which stamped out slavery, attempts to silence racism and bigotry, and which overall has done more to benefit third world countries through colonialism than hurt them. Also, he faces arguments from both cultural conservatives like Pat Buchanon and also the Islamic fundamentalists, who claim that America is an immoral society. In the end, D' Souza presents a reasonable defense for these well-grounded arguments and for the most part leaves the reader with a more optimistic view of American moral standards. And at last, the author discusses the war on terror and just how we should go about fighting it and also asks us Americans to know what we are fighting for. Overall, it is a work that will certainly implant a new perspective of what our country really is and what it needs to be. It is a work that should be standard reading in our colleges and universities.
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