Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin (2009, Hardcover)

When an author writes a book about a subject that meets the reasoning of a lot of folks, this book will surely receive high praise from those folks. After all, that's exactly what they wanted to hear.

High praise increases the buzz and the louder the buzz is, the more books are sold.

The recipe of success of "Liberty and Tyranny" is based exactly on that: The unhappy (the "conservative" losers) playing hard on the happy (the "statist" winners) so all the unhappy around are cheered up and feel like they might be right after all. There is no better sensation than knowing that someone of a supposedly higher intelligence thinks the same way we do.

Basically, what the author does throughout the entire book is to put all evil existing in politics in charge of the Democrats (called pejoratively as "statists"), accusing them to create the basis of what's not working today and to sponsor practices and thoughts that keep Americans struggling over time. A perfect "The Blame Game - Pointing Fingers" way of thinking. Accusations that do not prove to be true in historical terms are simply called hypothesis - or personal thoughts - or simply gossip. As a writer, one can easily manipulate facts throughout time to try to make things concur. The point: "Liberty and Tyranny" is a compilation of hypothesis not explicitly proven true.

Although footnotes citing sources are provided in some parts and you might find one or another statement that makes sense, the book itself fails to prove the points it tries to. Citations are good and recommended, but if by the end of the reading you don't understand exactly where the author wanted to reach, the job is not done.

So there is not much to say except that this work is just a pure piece of opportunism from a Republican/Conservative who still grieves and use the feelings of others to share of his pain and, mostly, to cash in over it. However, it the election result was the opposite, I am pretty sure that some Statist around would write a book bashing the Conservative anyway, as opportunism can be found in any field of knowledge.