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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making and Democracy Hardcover – 22 May 2007

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At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is the current administration's lack of interest in the process by which the truth is ascertained - first among which are an embrace of open inquiry, in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. How did the US get here? And how much damage has been done to the functioning of American democracy and its role as steward of its national security? Never has there been a worse time for the US to lose the capacity to face the reality of long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As "The Assault on Reason" shows us, there is precious little time to waste. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.

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'You can't fault his sincerity, rigour and energy as he pleads, with recourse to blinding graphs and damning photo evidence, that we all, especially his fellow countrymen, need to sit up and realise that global warming is neither a wacky theory nor a political manifesto, but stone-cold reality.' Time Out 'An impeccable slideshow, with just the right balance of gut-wrenching photographs, comprehensive charts and frightening predictions.' New Scientist 'A lucid account of what Gore rightly calls 'a moral issue', delivered with authority, wit and style' The Observer --The Observer

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Al Gore was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976 and the US Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on 20 January 1993 and served eight years. He is chairman of Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing. He also serves as chairman of Current, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc., a senior advisor to Google, Inc., and a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He is the author of the 1992 bestseller Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit and An Inconvenient Truth (2006), the companion book to the award-winning documentary film.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; First Edition (22 May 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747590974
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747590972
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm

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Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.'s board of directors.

Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the Climate Crisis.

Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. During the Administration, Gore was a central member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.

He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, and Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."

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The Assault On Reason

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'The Assault On Reason' is another clear and readable book from Al Gore. It looks at how democracy in America has been gradually eroded by a variety of small changes that add up to a larger picture in the political scene. This looks at the Bush administration in great depth and a lot of what this says is both shocking and pretty damning, but he qualifies each point and cites sources. He also looks at how changes in public communication over the years has affected democracy and how this can be developed and altered in years to come. The chapters that look at what the founders set out to achieve and where the country is at now make for fascinating reading and I find that once I'd gotten into the themes of the book I was completely hooked and I found this hard to put down. I've read many political books over the years and this is one of the easiest to read and has additional gravitas considering the author and his unique insight into high level American politics. I'm sure Bush supporters will hate what this book has to say, but this doesn't stop the disturbing nature of it's content or the fact that these atrocities and crimes against democracy have occurred. A succinct, fascinating read that will leave you stunned at some of the abuses of power and inspired by those who are fighting to make a change. Well worth checking out.

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Paul Margolis

Great book - not for the faint of heart...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2017

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Anyone who wants to understand how the US and other countries distort reality with the public's support needs to read this solid book. Lots of great insight, ideas and strategies to help turn the US around and back to its founding ideals of truth, democracy and grounded justice. Gore does a great job of dissecting and explaining how the Republicans (especially from Bush onwards) have tricked their base out of logic and reason to act solely on the basis of emotion, the now and even what is actually much worse for them in the long run.

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M. G. Tokyo

The State of the Nation (according to Al Gore)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2010

This book is Al Gore's analysis of the current political process. It is of course written with the U.S.A. in mind but many of his points are valid for the U.K. and other countries too.

His main themes through the book are the decline of rational political dialogue; the effect TV has had on politics and (in his opinion) the purposeful erosion of the founder's original vision of government by right-wing Republicans.

I found the book a little slow to start with; the first couple of chapters detail more abstract themes such as traumatisation and the psychology of fear and I felt he laboured the points a little too much. However the book gets in to more solid 'real-life' ideas and becomes a much better read.

At the end of the day, everyone knows Al Gore and his views: if you agree with him, you'll like this book.

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What would Gore have done?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2007

Al Gore gives a penetrating, though at times repetitive analysis of what has gone wrong with American government. By declaring perpetual war, George W Bush claims to be exempt from the normal checks and balances between executive, legislature and judiciary. Reliant on 30-second TV slots for political information, a passive public has failed to object.

Running through the book is a message: 'It would have been different with me.' This is a risky claim to make, for who can be sure of resisting the corrupting influence of power? On page 186, Gore makes a troubling statement: 'Back in 1991, I was one of a handful of Senate Democrats to vote in favour of the resolution endorsing the Persian Gulf War. I felt betrayed by the first Bush administration's hasty departure from the battlefield even as Saddam began to renew his persecution of the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south - groups that we had encouraged to rise up against Saddam. After a brilliant military campaign, our decision to abandon prematurely the effort to destroy Saddam's military capability allowed him to remain in power.' In other words, if Gore had been in power in 1991, the destruction of Iraq might have begun 12 years earlier than it did.

The Clinton-Gore Administration spent 8 years bombing targets in Iraq and enforcing sanctions which, according to UNICEF, caused the death of half a million Iraqi children. At the same time, they kept up massive financial aid and arms supplies to Israel while it continued to build illegal settlements on occupied territory, making the creation of a viable Palestinian state virtually impossible. Gore would not have invaded Iraq in 2003, but might he not have sent troops into Pakistan in pursuit of Bin Laden? At all events, America's posture in the Middle East might not have been much more comfortable, nor the attendant dangers much less, than they are now.

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