Right Is Wrong, Arianna Huffington
Right Is Wrong, Arianna Huffington
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Right Is Wrong
How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe

Author: Arianna Huffington

Narrator: Arianna Huffington

Abridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2008

Synopsis

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.

Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture.

But they haven’t done it on their own: they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again.

Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda.

About The Author

Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of twelve books. She is also cohost of Left, Right & Center, public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the world’s one hundred most influential people. Originally from Greece, Huffington moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. She lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on August 04, 2008

In 1994, I became Reuters Chief Political Correspondent and immediately plunged into covering the upcoming congressional elections which produced a Republican sweep. I well remember covering a speech by Newt Gingrich that summer at the Heritage Foundation which was preceded by an impassioned right-......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on June 18, 2008

I saw Ms. Huffington interviewed on The Colbert Report and she was wearing an evening gown and speaking in a great Greek accent. I decided I need to read her book. Synopsis: For Arianna Huffington, the problem with the Republican Party is not that it is at odds with the views of progressives, but that......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on August 16, 2008

Ms. Huffington has written a veritable compendium of right wing sins committed over the years of the Bush Administration that have literally ruined our country militarily, economically, diplomatically and culturally. I did not truly appreciate the breadth of the evilness nor the depth of the ineptit......more

Goodreads review by Spencer on July 29, 2024

Generally speaking, however you feel about their ideas, the Left are generally known as pretty good writers, whether they be semantic geniuses like Chomsky or humorists like Hightower. Being Comparative Lit geeks, rather than Economics or Business Majors, they can usually turn a phrase. As cloying a......more

Goodreads review by Teri on September 06, 2008

Ach! Huffington is SO smart! She is forthright in explanations, thorough with research and references, eloquent and clever with words. Each chapter focuses on an different aspect of current events to show how the public has been manipulated and even lied to. She also faults the media for not doing a......more

Quotes

“Huffington has demonstrated a gladiatorial appetite for verbal combat. Her assessments of Bill Frist, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, campaign finance, the drug war, the war in Iraq—even at a time when questioning the war against terrorism wasn’t popular—have been unflinching.”—The New Yorker“Huffington deserves credit for cataloging the ways in which Bush...peddled fear to silence critics and build political support.”—The New York Times Book Review

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