Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America

by Larry Elder

Book Overview

The Ten Things You Can't Say in America struck a chord with eager readers acroos the country, exposing thruths others have been too afraid to address. In his new book, Elder is out to slay entrenched and enmeshed special interest groups, government agencies with the capacity to meddle in Americans' lives and businesses, lawmakers who continue a pattern of outrageous overtaxation, and those who would hamstring this country with good intentions. Showdown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312301790
• ISBN13: 9780312301798
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Amazing

If you are a limited government conservative or a liberarian, this book will reaffirm your beliefs and give you the facts you need to support your arguments. If you are left-of-center this book might change your mind. There are many conservatives out there whose used to be on the political left, but often times when exposed to a thorough examination of the facts, changed their beliefs. This book, with it's penetrating analysis, excellent prose, and masterful evaluative techniques, is likely to do just that. The book artfully makes the case for a free and capitalist society, and proves once and for all that there is a deep-rooted leftist bias in education and the media, and it shows how damaging that bias is. If you care about this nation and its future you will read this book--either to arm yourself for debate or to rethink your assumptions about the world.

THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE READING THIS BOOK

Everyone who respects Larry Elder and has similar views will enjoy this book because it exposes the myths of the liberal agenda while reinforcing conservative values and beliefs. Unfortunately the people who need to read this book the most...namely liberals, leftists and what Larry refers to as "victocrats" will not read it, because it undermines and disproves their fundamental beliefs. Give this book to your liberal friends and watch their jaws drop when they read it. If you can't convince them by yourself, let Larry help you. I've added Larry's book to my liberal conversion kit which consists of books by Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Dinesh D'Sousa.

Right on the money...

Larry Elder follows up his first book, "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America" with "Showdown," a call for a return to limited, localized governance and liberty linked to personal responsibility. Elder's not the first to defend the Founder's design, not even the first black - Walter E Williams and Thomas Sowell have been championing less government for decades, but Larry Elder adds a strong voice to that choir and proof that what the Left likes to say about Libertarian blacks, that they are "out of step with mainstream black America," is wrong. In fact, Elder would retort that people like himself, Professors Williams and Sowell, Condy Rice and Colin Powell ARE more indicative of the mainstream than their more visible Left leaning cohorts like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson."Showdown" is a very well researched book. Elder backs up his points meticulously. He chronicles Santa Monica's disastrous "Living Wage" bill that recently passed...a bill that's already cost the area lots of entry level jobs. And the new California movement of "Visitablity" - an ordinance that would force private home owners to install ramps and other means of access, apparently for disabled door-to-door salesmen.Throughout "Showdown" Elder shows a government run amock. It's a quick and entertaining read and one that'll make you think twice about so much of what the media passes off as gospel.

Larry Elder Charts His Intellectual Landscape

For long time listeners to Larry's show in Los Angeles and new listeners to his syndicated show, this is your opportunity to appreciate Larry's intellectual landscape. In Ten Things You Can't Say, Larry shot his thoughts on American culture out of a cannon, intentionally displaying the provacative side of his personality that has won him such a large following. In Showdown, Larry takes a few breaths to allow the followers of his ideas a chance to catch up with him. As he charts the intellectual landscape that serves as the foundation for his ideas on freedom, Larry introduces his readers to the people in his life who have influenced him and his ideas: his family, his fans, and the other intellectuals he liberally quotes. The anecdotes about his family life are a joy to read, the letters from fans are inspirational and the books he mentions approvingly are a guide to further participation in Larry's ideas.

A Masterpiece

The Sage from South Central has done it again. In his new book "Showdown," Larry Elder describes with pinpoint accuracy why the biases and special interest groups are dividing America today and how they have prevented the government from doing its most important job; defending the American people. It is a shame that there aren't many people today who have the courage, intelligence, and direction Mr. Elder demonstrates through this masterpiece, and we as a people should hope that for the sake of this country there will be more like him in the future. I have listened to Larry Elder for years and will remain in Elderado for many years to come. Good job Sage!