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'Edwin McDowell, in his review for the WaH 'Street Journal 'reminds the reader that Beichman 'is not a rightwinger bent on defining the status quo. a laser beam of fact and reason' by the Los Angeles Times, and a 'most valuable antidote to a lot of cliche thinking and cliche thinking and cliche writing' by the 'New York Times. But I, for one, find his demonstration of the hash these men have made of the mother tongue extremely entertaining.' When initially published, Beichman's classic was termed 'powerful, persuasive and credible. Beichman finds nothing particularly amusing about what American intellectuals do to rationality and the English language, let alone the common weal, when they get on the subject of the United States. it is a book that uses the subject of the United States as a device with which to explore the modern intellectual's retrograde habits of mind. Tom Wolfe in his Foreword shrewdly observes: 'This is not a book 'about America'. It is Beichman's aim to explain the roots of such persistent opposition to American society as presently constructed. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union and of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe has not quelled the rhetoric of anti-Americanism. Everywhere the glib accusations are leveled: America is sick, racist, materialist, aggressive, decadent, and only violent revolution can save it.

And yet, anti-Americanism has characterized a small portion of ideologists whom Beichman refers to as radical egalitarians. Rather, what differentiates the nation from virtually all others is that there is no large-scale territorial movement whose sponsors seek to secede from the country and to establish a new nation.

In his probing new introduction to Anti-American 'Myths, 'which was initially published twenty years ago as 'Nine Lies About America, 'Arnold Beichman notes a powerful fact: what makes the United States unique is not only its military power nor its huge economy, nor even its great technological innovations. Download Anti American Myths Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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