GPDP
6th November 2008, 03:58
If you ever need a book chock-full of statistics to demonstrate just how miserable the lot of the majority of Americans are, this is the book.
It is written by a Lithuanian Soviet exile, a human rights activist and journalist who decided to go to the US, blinded by propaganda coming to his side of the world about the great virtues of America. Upon getting here, however, and seeing for himself, while traveling the country with the likes of Newt Grinwich, the realities of US society and its impact upon the vast majority of its populace, he once again turned into a dissident, convinced that the US of A is no better than the USSR, and may perhaps even be worse.
I have not read the entire book (it is a very long read, and the sheer number of statistics are mind-numbing), but from what I read, it really is sobering. Most of his harshest criticism is actually aimed at Clinton, more so than even Reagan and Bush I.
Overall, it is a fantastic book. However, I have recently discovered that Mr. Anelauskas has recently turned into somewhat of a white separatist and racialist, and now peddles theories about how Jews were responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution. Quite a disturbing development, to say the least. Still, it does not really detract from this book. I suggest everyone give it a read.
It is written by a Lithuanian Soviet exile, a human rights activist and journalist who decided to go to the US, blinded by propaganda coming to his side of the world about the great virtues of America. Upon getting here, however, and seeing for himself, while traveling the country with the likes of Newt Grinwich, the realities of US society and its impact upon the vast majority of its populace, he once again turned into a dissident, convinced that the US of A is no better than the USSR, and may perhaps even be worse.
I have not read the entire book (it is a very long read, and the sheer number of statistics are mind-numbing), but from what I read, it really is sobering. Most of his harshest criticism is actually aimed at Clinton, more so than even Reagan and Bush I.
Overall, it is a fantastic book. However, I have recently discovered that Mr. Anelauskas has recently turned into somewhat of a white separatist and racialist, and now peddles theories about how Jews were responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution. Quite a disturbing development, to say the least. Still, it does not really detract from this book. I suggest everyone give it a read.