- ISBN13: 9781439168578
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Product Description
“If you believe it’s time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all — then I ask you to read this book….”In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation’s problems.One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who c… More >>
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Give me a break, the great proculaytor like Beck reading and and being influenced by the Revolutioary hero Thomas Paine………..what next from Beck, some story about him being directly linked by his imagination to not only Thomas Jefferson, but also Ghandi………?
This tome is definitely a book of fiction, and not very creative non-fiction………..
This book reads like a Hitchens’ novella…..and any intelligent person knows the drama Hitches puts in his diatribes, actually believing he is “hyper-intelligent”……
Just ONCE I’d like to see a book published by a far-right storyteller that contains the truth of reality……….
Rating: 5 / 5
I can see why Glenn Beck is promoting this book with a “comedy tour.” About the only way he’ll sell many copies is to pitch it to closed rooms of hundreds at a time… for a few hours on end.
Given that Beck chose to take on the title of “Common Sense,” I was intrigued to see if he could offer something that I’ve never found on his TV shows or in his columns. A better title would have been “Commonly Incensed,” because all Beck offers is the very routine, tired, and seemingly ignorant indignation of a peculiar section of the political right which is happier fictionalizing its own version of reality than living in the actual thing.
If you like simple “us versus them” cheerleading, if you’re a big fan of swatting flies with sledgehammers, and if you commonly miss the finer points of an argument in favor of the “hellz yeah,” then this book is definitely for you.
If you’re looking for serious critique of what is going on in this country right now, do what Back recommends and actually read. Just don’t read this book, because it’s a waste of time.
Rating: 1 / 5
I found this book to be a complete wast of my time. I’ve watched Glenn on television and this book is SO VERY different from his spoken views that this book reads as though it was ghost-written. Don’t your time and money on this book; read a REAL book like Payne’s original work!
Rating: 1 / 5
Whether it is riding the coattails and verbally plagerizing other hosts, or having to “update” as something as precious to American history as Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, I wish the author would quit appealing to his audience’s lesser instincts and begin to be a responsible voice for ideals he claims not to be a part of (or above the fray from all the others). I am tired of irresponsible people taking the mantle of their own brand of conservatism, telling listeners there is NO difference between the two politcal parties when we are undergoing the political fight of our lives, all the while stealing ideas from others and claiming them as their own. Whether it is some of his fellow talk show hosts, or now Thomas Paine, Glenn Beck should try and be Glenn Beck…no one else.
Rating: 2 / 5
Pseudointellectual Glenn Beck has no right to even mention the name Thomas Paine in reference to himself
Rating: 1 / 5