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Even though the New York Times refused to put this book on its best sellers list ( their excuse was  the book was purchased in bulk by his campaign), it should be on it. He is not your "establishment " politician. This book shows how Senator Cruz has gone against his own party and does what is right. He is a true conservative, not like the Paul Ryans or Mifch McConnells in Congress who "claim" to be a conservative but give the president whatever he wants. If more congressmen followed Ted Cruz's lead, DC wouldn't be the cesspool it is today. Very good read!
4161755
Don't take my word for it.  Others feel the same way.  This book has been on the best sellers list several times.
4524105
Gone Girl has been on the best sellers list for quite a while. Read it and you will find out why. I loved the book and would recommend it.
4041074
I have a practice that has served me well, lo, these many years.  When I see an impulse book (one I had not planned on reading) at the library, I sit and read it for long enough to determine if it grabs me or not.

The book, rather than grabbing me, repelled me like magnets of like poles.

Drivel.  Snark.  Right Wing Talking Points.  If this is what you want, you need this book.  If not, read something else, of value.

I often wondered how such books could make the NY Times Bestseller List, and really good books did not.  A friend explained it to me:  when a political screed is written (and the tactic is mostly used by the right wing), PACs and big money contributors/recipients will buy huge quantities of the book.  NYTimes Bestseller List is on to this tactic, so they discount bulk purchases from their count.  What does the right wing do?  Make multiple purchases across the market.  It must keep a lot of people employed, anyway.  The tactic, which is really brilliant in its Soviet-like evil, was conceived by Joseph Goebbels and adopted by Karl Rove.  Tells you something.

So.  That's how books by this clown and the likes of Ann Coulter become best sellers.  They are best sellers not because they are best readers, but because people with a political agenda want to influence your thinking.  "It's a best seller.  It must be good.  They must be right."

The question is, though, why am I wasting time writing a review of a dreadful book that took less time to write than this review, likely?  If I had a brain, I would write a screed that furthered the Right Wing talking points, and become a millionaire myself.

Gutfeld may talk, write, and act like an immature dummy, but who is the real dummy?

Don't you be the dummy.  Don't waste your time on "stuff" like this.
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It is amazing how many of the 5 Star reviews talk more about 1 Star reviews than the merits of this book. I am not convinced by the 4 and 5 Star reviews to buy the book. I have read articles and heard interviews of the author, which provided me more information on why I do not want to read the book.  I may buy the book if I see it at a yard sale for less than a dollar. It is a little funny that the conservatives are beating the liberals at their own game of trashing books to limit free speech.
4411894
How did this book get on the New York Times best selling list? This was pure filth.
2057348
Raimondo never finds the evidence that Israel was involved in 9/11. But isn't it a scandal that this book was ignored by the major media and even by the 9/11 commission?

Just imagine what would have happened if the art students/spies had been Arabs? Do you think the media would have ignored the story? Raimondo would have won a Pulitzer prize!
997102
A person who knew the family said that the book was written to make money, only. Amy's more radical critics do not like the book because it is un-American. Amy's moderate critics have facts that speak more truth.
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There are some typos in the book, but not enough to reject the book out of hand.  A lot of hard work went into the typing & editing to get it to the publishing stage.  It had to be published privately as major publishing houses wouldn't handle it, as it is a specialty item.
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Books are difficult to produce, and in the case of beautiful illustrated editions they involve the hard work of scores of dedicated people. Amazon reviews are important; the rankings are watched. It is not right that a rant, in this case a response to a film, should be allowed to register as if a serious appraisal of a book that is quite independent of the film.
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It's unconscionable to give this book a 1-star review because you don't like the Kindle price. Either wait for the price to drop to $9.99 when the book hits the NYT best-seller list, or wait for it drop in a few months. The price has nothing to do with the quality of the book. As a protest to this nonsense, I just purchased the book at its current price. As a book editor, I know that no one is getting rich from selling books -- not the publisher, not the bookseller, and certainly not the author -- except for the very few who are fortunate enough to write, publish, and sell books that catch the public's eye. Typically, the author will get much less than a dollar from the sale of a typical Kindle book. What would you like the author get as payment for your many hours of enjoyment? A quarter? I get far more hours of enjoyment from a book than from a movie, and it costs me much less per hour.
3646873
The story is not believable.  Why it became a best seller is difficult to understand.
2738959
In the age of on-demand publishing, anyone can get a book published. No longer do publishing companies act as a filter allowing only a select few authors access to the reading public. As a result, the book market is flooded, and promoting one's book(s) is increasingly the responsibility of the author whether the books are self-published or released through a conventional publishing company. To those faced with the dilemma of finding a readership, Mark Newhouse's checklists will be invaluable. There is something here for even the most experienced author (unless he or she is already on the New York Times Bestseller List).
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For whatever reason, Amazon has not incorporated the reviews from the hardcover edition of this book onto the release of the paperback, which gives me the opportunity to again encourage everyone to READ THIS BOOK, especially now, when many schools are prohibitted from, and many parents refuse to, teach basic sex education. And the Supreme Court is hanging by a thread contingent on the next Presidential election.  This reviewer is shocked, chagrinned, and embarassed by generations of females behind me, like Elisabeth Hasselbeck on *The View,* who totally "don't get" the ramifications.  This could be where Yogi Berra says: "it's Deja Vu all over again!"

Between the end of World War II in 1945 and the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, many unwed girls and women were forced by society to "go away" during unplanned pregnancies - < to "hide" the physical evidence of their perceived moral turpitude, while the fathers, blameless and shameless, were free to roam about their usual lives and wild oat sowing> - and surrender the baby to "good homes" (2 parent households.) Now, adding insult to past psychological injuries, the Men in power continue to refuse to allow adequate access to birth and adoption records such that the members of the "adoption triad" (birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptee) can't find each other. Thus is created a large segment of the "Baby Boom" generation without medical/genetic history.

Ann Fessler found her history and has written an excellent, empathetic, anecdotal and well-researched history of her mother and other mothers who "gave up" their babies and the confluence of forces in the age of Ozzie and Harriet, McCarthy, and beyond. As this reviewer has cautioned in other reviews, a lot of younger women take for granted the great strides made in the brief period between the 1960's and now. This book and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/In-Our-Time-Memoir-of-a-Revolution/dp/0385318316/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution</a>&nbsp;will remind those of us who lived through this period of the progress we've made - and teach the younger generations that they must be eternally vigilant, lest those rights be taken away. Rosie the Riveter, paragon of "We Can Do It!" womanhood in the 1940s, was shuffled off to June Cleaver's kitchen in the 1950s. As Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
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I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Discovering Black New York: A Guide to the City's Most Important African American Landmarks, Restaurants, Museums, Historical Sites, but the price just keeps getting higher and higher.  I spoke to the author and she only has 4 copies left to her name and would not part with any.  She says that the historical data is the most important and that the restaurants should be called first since business is swift(my word) in NYC.  I sure hope that she produces another guide book so that the madness of the over inflated price wars grinds to a screeching halt.

I Never was crazy about history, I told her so, now I am curious about her book.  This book gets one star reserved until I read it for myself and not at this inflated price.  Amazon's price is the bargain.
854156
Please do not support authors who do no write their own material. Having a reality show does not make you an author. This being on the bestseller list sad, sad, sad.
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There have been thousands of reviews so far, but all of them, as far as my research has taken me, have overlooked a fascinating and enormously important fact: America: the Book may become the first number one best selling book in modern times printed in full color

Publishers Weekly listed the top selling book of each year between 1900 and 1999. All of the books, without exception, were printed in the standard black and white way. And if you look at every Nobel prize winner of the past 100 years, you will see that all of them, again without exception, wrote in the standard black and white way.

Now compare this to 1300 through 1399, the last century before Gutenberg invented the printing press. Every one of the major books produced during that 100 year period, without exception, was beautifully illuminated in gorgeous colors.

My mission in life is to show other young writers how beautiful their books can be and to invite them to join me in creating this Renaissance. In the year 2100, when Publishers Weekly lists the top selling books between 2000 and 2099, most of the books will have been beautifully designed, like they were in the Middle Ages. America: the Book represents a significant turning point in the evolution of the written word.

Valerie Kirschenbaum

author of Goodbye Gutenberg: How a Bronx Teacher Defied 500 Years of Tradition and Launched an Astonishing Renaissance