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Author: Balint VazsonyiPublisher: Isi Books
ISBN-10: 0895263548Category: History
ISBN-13: 9780895263544 --
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Publication Year: 1998Condition: Good
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Is America on a slow-motion trip toward socialism even as much of the rest of the world moves away from that system? Hungarian-born historian and world-renowned concert pianist Balint Vazsonyi, who knows first-hand what it means to live murder an authoritarian regime, makes a powerful case that it is. With unmistakable clarity. Vazsonyi shows how every time America moves away from its founding principles it moves in the direction of the only real alternative -- where a fantasy of "social justice" is pursued through ever-greater government control. The author makes clear how America's founding principles of rule of law, individual rights, and a common American identity are being gradually replaced by government mandated group rights, redistribution, and multiculturalism.
With unmistakable clarity, Vazsonyi shows how every time America moves away from its founding principles it moves in the direction of the only real alternative--where a fantasy of "social justice" is pursued through ever-greater government control.

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America's founding principles of liberty and the rule of law have eroded steadily over the last three decades, and the U.S. risks sliding into socialism, asserts Vazsonyi in this alarmist, sometimes strident polemic. This Hungarian-born historian and contributor to National Review and the Washington Times, offers the simplistic thesis that "Anglo-American" values of liberty, capitalism, democracy have waged an unremitting struggle against "Franco-Germanic" collectivist, utopian, statist tendencies. Vazsonyi, who fled his native country for the U.S. in 1959, does draw on firsthand experience to pinpoint similarities between Soviet communism and German nazism. But much of this tiresome conservative manifesto has a familiar ring: special-interest groups (feminists, blacks, homosexuals) dilute the concept of constitutionally derived individual freedoms; entitlement programs and government regulations threaten guarantees of private property; multiculturalism and Afrocentric curricula inventing a mythical past represent an assault on our common American identity. Vazsonyi exaggerates the influence of political correctness on campus ("Academic freedom has been all but driven out of the American university"), and his scattershot broadside sometimes borders on paranoia, as when he charges that various departments (including NEA, EPA, DOE) are commissariats serving a political agenda, or when he brands the environmentalist movement as a cover for "the de facto repeal of property rights, and the curtailment of freedom." (Sept.)
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America's Thirty Years War: Who is Winning?

Balint Vazsonyi

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Binding: Hardcover
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ISBN: 0895263548
Publication Date: 1998-07-04
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Pages: 281
Height: 1.0000 inches
Width: 6.8000 inches
Weight: 1.2000 pounds

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