I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT for "The Assault on Reason" to come out.

[Guaranteed]

I have a feeling that this book is going to take our country by storm. He's going to be saying what so many are feeling, in such stark, insightful terms. Not your typical political biography or puff-piece. It's going to have an unmistakable, desperately needed message that I think will change the way people engage in politics.

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Here's the book description from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226/sr=8-1/qid=1170554545/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3037108-5535944?ie=UTF8&s=books

"A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason.

"At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism.

"We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.

"How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste.

"Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking."

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I'm drooling.

[MadMaddie]

1. Well now I am looking forward to it....

[Guaranteed]

3. Kick nt

[frebrd]

2. K&R n/t

[lildreamer316]

4. Right with ya.

<taps fingers>

[Cetacea]

5. K&R

Thank you.

[ms liberty]

6. This is the discussion we should be having in this country...

I'm looking forward to it, too.

[Guaranteed]

12. For sure. nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. Kick and R for another 'must read'! ....n/t

[malaise]

8. And he will enter the race

following the book launch. Go Al!

[Cetacea]

9. and resume his proper place

in the White House. I have very little doubt about this.

[RestoreGore]

13. How do you know that?

[Cabcere]

10. Mm-hmm.

I think this is going to be really, really good. :loveya: Al Gore!

[glitch]

11. K & R in anticipation...nt

[RestoreGore]

14. Can't wait either...

But how many people will even know what he is talking about? We can't even impeach Bush.

[mzmolly]

15. I just pre-ordered mine.

Thanks, it sounds fantastic.

[Guaranteed]

20. Thinking about doing that myself.

Maybe we can get it on the bestseller lists three months before it even comes out.

[petgoat]

16. Rationality got a bad rap in the sixties and seventies when

students came to suspect that the academics who wanted to spend a lot of
time defining terms just wanted to obstruct them.

W's presiduncy has been an exercise in subjective polivymaking given the green
light by a public who simply said, "yeah, whatever he said, it feels right to me."

Too much subjectivity is fascism, and if decision-making is to be shared and public,
that is, democratic, then decisions have to be made in a rational fashion.

[Maat]

17. Wow. Thanks for the post!

I can't wait to read it!

[NYCGirl]

18. It'll be a real barn burner! NT

[tom_paine]

19. I am sure Mr. Gore's book will be cogent and powerful.

[AtomicKitten]

21. w00t

Can hardly wait.