American betrayal the secret assault on our nation's character
"In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom--our inability to become adults who render judgements of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lie...
| Main Author: | West, Diana, 1961- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
St. Martin's Griffin,
2014.
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| Edition: | First St. Martin's Griffin edition. |
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| Summary: |
"In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom--our inability to become adults who render judgements of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath. Part real-life thriller, part national tragedy, American Betrayal lights up the massive, Moscow-directed penetration of America's most-hallowed halls of power, revealing not just the familiar struggle between Communism and the Free World but the hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies. American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of the past to focus on the WWII-Cold War deal with the devil, in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders' own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, 'political correctness,' and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions: Does our silence on the crimes of Communism explain our silence on the totalitarianism of Islam? Is Uncle Sam once again betraying America? In [this book], Diana West shakes the historical record to bring down a new understanding of our past, our present, and how we have become a nation unable to know truth from lies." -- Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: |
403 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1250055814 9781250055811 |
| Author Notes: |
Diana West is the author of The Death of the Grown-Up and coauthor of Shariah: The Threat to America. West's essays have appeared in numerous publications, and her weekly newspaper column is syndicated by Universal Uclick. She is the Washington correspondent for Dispatch International. |