America's Thirty Years War: Who Is Winning?

by Balint Vazsonyi

Book Overview

The Hungarian-born historian and concert pianist shows how every time America moves away from its founding principles it moves in the direction where a fantasy of social justice is pursued through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895263548
• ISBN13: 9780895263544
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Work of Brilliance and Infallible Logic

While many authors seem to have written countless book before they final pen a magnum opus, it seems that Mr. Vazsonyi burst upon the literary world with a book that eloquently defines the difference between the two different political ideologies that are extant in the world today. The two ideologies according to the author are what have come from the Franco-Germanic school of thought versus the other that is based upon the Anglo-American philosophy. If there is a downfall of the book it is that the author has penned his tome to those that have a requisite knowledge of world and political history. It also presupposes that one has watched and understood the paradigm shift that Socialist entities (Communist, Fascist, Nazi's, and Bolshevik's) have taken over the last ten years. With that being said and if you are an intelligent observer of world politics this book is easily digested and imparts a plethora of political savvy upon the reader At this point I am at a loss of how to review this book anything that I write will do a disservice the original text therefore I will just cull some quotes out of the book that I think will give the reader a fair assessment of the authors style and wisdom.The frames of the Constitution understood the wisdom of making few laws. The fewer the laws, the broader the agreement.. The broader the agreement, the less need for enforcement. The less enforcement, the less friction between government and the governed. And the less friction, the less waste of time and energy. The time and energy thus freed vastly increase people's creative capacity. That, in a nutshell, is the success story of the United States of America. (49)Under a variety of labels, the former (Franco-Germanic thought) is unconcerned with the human nature, and seeks only those outcomes it considers "desirable." The latter (Anglo-American thought) has always engaged in creating the circumstances that, based on human nature and empirical evidence, will offer the best chances for individual success. While the later holds that successful individuals will constitute a successful society, the former believes that a good theory will produce a "good" society - communism being the ultimate "good society." (67)Once again, the more groups we have, the more "rights" we have. The more groups we have, the farther we drift from the rule of law. The more groups we have, the more restrictions we have on our true rights: Individual rights.Individual rights reflect our similarities; group rights emphasize our differences. Individual rights promote equality; group rights cultivate inequality. Individual rights permit every one of us to be special; group rights create stereotypes. Individual rights are unalienable, and are guaranteed by the Constitution; group rights are born at activist rallies, conferred by a party-political executive branch, and confirmed by a temporal judge. Group rights can be taken away be an even louder rally, a different regulator, a new judge.Individu

Is History Repeating Itself?

Teacher, Political Activist, and Internationally-Renowned Concert Pianist Balint Vazsonyi brings a truly synoptic perspective to his erudite chrestomathy. Having lived in Hungary under the control of both the nazis and the communists, he knows something of real world oppression which is radically different from the current widespread shibboleth of oppression that permeates so much of our present political discourse.Amazingly (and terrifyingly) he sees many of the same deleterious trends in modern day America that wreaked havoc on Hungary and much of the world under both of these failed forms of government. When he became a citizen in the early sixties, he was called an American; Hungarian-American would have seemed like a derogatory term as though his Americanism was somehow not quite legitimate. Nowadays hyphenated-Americans are commonplace and the artificial divisiveness employed by Hitler and Stalin is finding a foothold in the United States. Just as the multicultural mumbo-jumbo that's infiltrating American universities, corporations, and government programs is often masked in halcyon terms, the communists and nazis often called for behavior that was good for the "party" or "cause." Vazsonyi sagaciously points out that this whole concept of group rights is a Constitutional affront perpetuated at the cost of individual rights. Among his most frightening observations concerns the phrase "politically correct." Many will shocked to learn that the term was originated by one of Stalin's sycophants decades ago, and the nazis were fond of the saying "socially correct." He perspicuously demonstrates how the entire group rights fad bears an eerie overlap to both nazism's and communism's enforced class struggles which lead to their divide and conquer reigns of terror.This eye-opening book is a very good companion to Rabbi Daniel Lapin's similarly titled "America Real War," and they both wisely articulate how high the ultimate stakes are in the battle that currently rages in our land.

At 61 years of age this book helped focus on the issues!

In his book, "America's 30 Years War", Balint Vazonyi defines the two political philosophies that have been written about and tried over the centuries as the "Franco-Germanic" Way and the "Anglo-American" Way. He has defined them as such, because to call them "Left and Right" or "liberal and Conservative" or "Socialism/Communism and Free Enterprise" causes people to ignore the facts.Thomas Sowell writes about modern liberals ..."What they have that is more important to them than specific knowledge of what they are doing is a vision of the world and a vision of themselves. Their test of a belief is not how it fits the facts but how it fits their vision. That is what makes them so dangerous." ...This in my opinion exactly fits the "Franco-Germanic" way of thinking, which has been proven dangerous by such examples as National Socialism, Soviet Socialism and the People's Republic of China and all have killed millions of people.Now we have the DLC, clinton and most Democrats and even some Republicans, along with their NATO heads of state, promoting "The Third Way" or Global Socialism.In this final year before Election2000 this book will help those interested in the Future of Our Country to focus on important issues ...rto

Best Book Ever Written On America's Founding Principles

The most concise, well thought out book ever written on the founding principles of American Society. Mr. Vazsonyi provides THE thorough overview of the foundations that make America, the product of over 3000 years of Monotheism and Western Civilization, unique among all nations. A must read for all immigrants who want to know how to be American, for those who feel something is not quite right with America but can't put it in concrete terms, and all students in courses titled "Government," "Civics," and "American History.". With the personal perspective and clarity only an immigrant is likely to have, Mr. Vazsonyi effectively demonstrates the two dominant concepts of government - Anglo American principles clearly delineated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the French German Welfare State founded in the blood of the French Revolution and refined in Bismark's Germany. Mr. Vazsonyi shows how Communism, socialism, liberalism, and all the other "ism's" that have developed in the last two hundred years are manifestations of a very old concept of governance which tries to create the perfect society envisioned by a self-appointed elite using a centralized government administering a command economy. American Society, by contrast, created a set of principles designed to enable each individual to develop himself according to the advantages his circumstances allowed. Adoption of these principles produced a society of responsible and moral individuals, who built a great nation from the grass roots, without the help of any central authority. America's 30 Year's War asks: In light of the prosperity and freedom the system created by our founders provided us, do we really want to adopt the statist European model that, in its various forms, has lead to the elimination of entire populations and the destruction of private property, capital, and individual freedom? By its existence, America has prevented the ultimate triumph of the European Welfare State and its approach to governance. Impossible to defeat externally, American Founding Principles are being attacked internally; primarily by those in government, entertainment, academia, and media who want her to be just as equal as all other nations. The approach is to use feel good words and concepts such as multiculturualism, regulation, social justice (what exactly does that term mean, who defines it and when will we know when we've achieved it?) assaults on property rights, group identity and class warfare, to make people feel warm, fuzzy, and receptive about various causes and movements that pound away at America's Constitutional Foundations. These same methods, used in the author's native Hungry by both German and Russian occupiers in the 40's and 50's, are used to produce passionate, caring "Useful Idiots." Mr. Vazsonyi suggests a return to Constitutional Principles will ensure the rebirth of the Original American Rev