America's 30 Years War: Who Is Winning?
by Balint Vazsonyi
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Author: Balint VazsonyiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-03-01
ISBN: 0895262487
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Book Review: Opened My Mind
Summary: 5 Stars
I am quoting my friend A. Williams (so this is not me, I can spell):
"I am not good at giving reviews so in anyway my review sets you off or angers you dont worry about it, this book is awesome and totally owns.
This is not your regular Conservitive pundit preaching the truth this is an outsiders view how what we take for granted, the freedoms we are slowy losing in this great country of ours and how we are being made numb to ther direction of our country and how in his life in other soviet bloc conrties where the y had little ot no freedoms to began with it appalls him how people can take advantage of our systems and our goverment to serve theier own means and he sees the familiar laws just with different names slowy changing our country. Being a concert pianist his knowledge spans many decades and many poltical thoughts and theories and you will be surpised to find yourself looking up words in this book.A great understanding on things in the past 3 decades that most people just generally accepted and he shows you a diffirent way to look at history, moderen poltics and cold war politics.
As a student on a school trip in the Grand Canyon I was at a strip mall looking around at stores while my friends were having fun, noting i had not bought anything for my family I went into a bookstore and got a couple of posters and prints then I looked in the discount book shelf and scanned around, no picture books nothing good, then I saw a book that had something to do with war, I jumped on it, being the video game playing war obessed person I am.
After I started reading it I began to understand even though I grew up a conservative and followed that general mind set I never really knew why. At first this book seem boring, no pictures, no this no that, but being a big history buff I began to see his view a little outdated but still good, and how to apply it for todays messed up world. I suddenly was awakened to the oppurtunists, the media and its bias, the world was not as happy and as fair as I had thought, but this book alllow me to branch to many more, Left Illussions by David Horowitz, Misunderestimated, South Park Conserivatives, The Enemy Within, and many othre general political theories and essay. I became active in my area with politics and school. I became a leader in my class and I can thank it all to this great book."
Summary of America's 30 Years War: Who Is Winning?
The Hungarian-born historian and concert pianist shows how every time America moves away from its founding principles it moves in the direction where a fantasy of "social justice" is pursued through ever-greater government control."Every day," Balint Vazsonyi cautions, "serious persons tell us that 'communism has lost,' 'socialism has collapsed,' 'conservatism is taking over America.' Each of these is an inaccurate assumption, or the product of wishful thinking." Despite the collapse of the Soviet bloc, he argues, democracy's victory is unclear, because since the 1960s Americans have increasingly abandoned the basic principles--"the rule of law, individual rights, guaranteed property, and a common American identity"--on which the United States was founded.
In America's 30 Years War, Vazsonyi--a concert pianist and political commentator who arrived in the United States in 1959, fleeing his native Hungary after the failed revolt against Soviet occupation--elaborates upon his distinction between the "Anglo-American" principles of liberty he finds in the Founding Fathers' intentions and the "Franco-Germanic" social theories that he claims, in their "search for social justice," lead inevitably to communism. The thesis is somewhat idiosyncratic, and could have used a sharper editor; readers may be frustrated to learn that five entire pages of the "Conclusions" section are drawn verbatim from one of the early chapters. --Ron Hogan
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