The Founder and the Fragility of Democracy Invoke an External and Internal Threat Establish Secret Prisons Develop a Paramilitary Force Surveil Ordinary Citizens Infiltrate Citizenis Groups Arbitrarily Detain and Release Citizens Target Key Individuals Restrict the Press Cast Criticism as eEspionagei and Dissent as eTreasoni Subvert the Rule of Law
Naomi Wolf was born in San Francisco in 1962. She was an undergraduate at Yale University and did her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Her essays have appeared in various publications including: The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century, published by Random House in 1993, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, published in 1997 and Misconceptions, released in 2001. In 2002, Harper Collins published a 10th anniversary commemorative edition of The Beauty Myth.Wolf is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business andentrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making. She lives with her family in New York City.
Library Journal (starred review)-
This latest offering from best-selling author Wolf, The Beauty
Myth, is a harbinger of an age that may finally see the patriarchal
realm of political discourse usurped. Here is Wolf's compellingly
and cogently argued political argument for civil rights, not
women's rights. She contributes this call to action to a canon that
from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes and Locke and forward, with a
few exceptions (e.g., Hannah Arendt), has been largely populated by
men. Wolf's work is actually closer to the agitated, passionate
polemics of Emma Goldman than the ponderous, philosophical musings
of Arendt. Readers will appreciate her energy and urgency as she
warns we are living through a dangerous "fascist shift" brought
about by the Bush administration. Her chapters outline the "Ten
Steps to Fascism" citing historical corollaries (as well as the
pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm), with headings like "Invoke an
External and Internal Threat," "Establish Secret Prisons," and
"Target Key Individuals." In other words, fascism can exist without
dictatorship. Her book's publication through a small press in
Vermont that is committed to "the politics and practice of
sustainable living" rather than through a large trade house is
itself a political act. Highly recommended for all collections.
*Theresa Kintz, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, PA*
"One of the most important books that's been written, certainly in
the last decade or two, and perhaps in my lifetime."--Thom
Hartmann, best-selling author and host of The Thom Hartmann Radio
Program
"Naomi Wolf 's End of America is a vivid, urgent, mandatory wake-up
call that addresses momentous issues of tyranny, democracy, and
survival."--Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume Eleanor
Roosevelt and distinguished professor at John Jay College
"Naomi Wolf sounds the alarm for all American patriots. We must
come together as a nation and recommit ourselves to the fundamental
American idea that no president, whether Democrat or Republican,
will ever be given unchecked power."--Wes Boyd, co-founder,
MoveOn.org
"The framers of our Constitution fully understood that it can
happen here. Patriots like Madison, Paine, and Franklin would
certainly applaud Naomi Wolf and recognize her as a sister in their
struggle."--Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again
"You will be shocked and disturbed by this book. Most Americans
reject outright any comparison of post 9/11 America with the
fascism and totalitarianism of Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile.
Sadly, the parallels and similarities, what Wolf calls the 'echoes'
between those societies and America today, are all too
compelling."--Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
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