No, Doug, I have not read this particular book, yet. I will read it, however. I rarely buy books of a political nature such as this because they don't have lasting value. Nor have I purchased What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News by Eric Alterman which I got from the library and am reading now. My wife, Barbara, works at the Seattle Public Library and I asked her to pick it up the Perle/Frum book for me. She checked, and although the library has it on order, it hasn't arrived yet, so she put a hold on it for me. I am 25th on the list, but it shouldn't be too long, because being a large library, they often order multiple copies.

However, I have read about a dozen reviews of it, both pro and con. I have heard Richard Perle speak and have read a number of his articles, so I have a pretty good idea of where he's coming from; and of course, I've heard examples of David Frum's prose in Bush's earlier speeches. As I say, I will read the book when it becomes available.

Here are a few books you might find interesting to peruse. More than one, but feel free to can pick and choose. You may find any one of them disturbing and distasteful, but I'm pretty sure that if you don't just dismiss them out of hand, they'll provide you some food for thought:—

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin P. Phillips;
Evil in Modern Thought: an Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman;
Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy by Walter Williams.
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider;
and
The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love by Matthew Miller.

You might also want to re-read The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater and ask yourself as you read, what would the late Senator think of the current administration and its policies?

Don Firth