The End of America, Naomi Wolf
The End of America, Naomi Wolf
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The End of America
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Author: Naomi Wolf

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2008


Synopsis

The Founding Fathers believed that the proper goal of the State was to make men and women free to develop their faculties and to pursue virtue and wisdom. Our Constitution was built around these principles, protecting civil liberties and developing a careful system of checks and balances that protected our freedom from tyranny.

Naomi Wolf's latest work, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, exposes how the escalation of executive power has eroded these core values and systems, limiting Congress's ability to make laws and our courts' power to interpret them—a scenario that our Founding Fathers foresaw and warned against. Wolf outlines in this citizen call to action—which is reminiscent of Thomas Paine's revered Common Sense—the real threats to our civil liberties that exist and explains how by working together we can stop the growing threat.

The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is the centerpiece to the American Freedom Agenda, a nonpartisan organization of which Naomi Wolf is a founding board member and which asks all Americans to support a "Freedom Pledge" to support only candidates who favor restoring the pillars of American liberty. It combines a wide host of partners, united in their belief that when it comes to the Constitution, we are neither conservative nor liberal; we are all Americans.

About Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf's first book, The Beauty Myth, was published in fourteen countries and is an international bestseller. She is also the author of Fire with Fire and Promiscuities, among other books, and her essays have appeared in the New Republic, Esquire, Ms., the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Naomi has appeared on many national talk shows and speaks to college audiences across Canada and the United States on the topic of young women and feminism. She holds a degree from Yale University and New College, Oxford University, and lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynn on October 14, 2007

I heard Wolf speak at a local bookstore yesterday, as well as on Stephen Colbert a couple of weeks ago, and was thoroughly blown away. Then I bought the book (short, fast read) and spent most of the night reading it. Everyone should, as I did, put aside whatever they are doing, buy this book, read i......more

Goodreads review by David on September 10, 2016

If you love democracy and want to see its ideals preserved, then this book offers a guide for its perpetuation. The founders of the American Constitution were so profound in their construction of democracy that they installed a series of checks and balances to power. Wolf examines history to offer a......more

Goodreads review by Lucius on January 22, 2008

A Clarion Call for Patriots, January 20, 2008 What Naomi Wolf sees in the current state of affairs in America is a "fascist shift" - a subtle (and not so subtle) erosion of our Constitutional Democracy in the post 9/11 reality of perpetual global war. It is worth noting that according to Mussolini......more

Goodreads review by GeekChick on October 26, 2007

I learned of this book when I saw Wolf on Colbert Report. The premise is that there are 10 steps a government takes to move from an open society/democracy to fascism. Guess how many are underway in America right now? The first couple of chapters scared the hell out of me. If this is true, and if we......more

Goodreads review by Amber on August 30, 2020

What a trip down memory lane. Remember Naomi Wolf? Remember Bush? Unfortunately, Naomi Wolf has a reputation for poor fact checking and I have no interest in fact checking this book myself. But you know, sometimes she makes really good points. Other times she sounds really dumb. Like toward the end s......more