The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

In this timely call to arms, best-selling author Naomi Wolf argues that political freedom in America is under assault. She warns - with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets - that there is little time to lose if democracy is to be preserved in the United States. In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and the US Congress, Wolf uses authoritative research and documentation to identify a 'fascist shift' in American politics and show how events of the last six years in America parallel steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century's worst dictatorships, such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. Wolf illustrates ten classic measures taken by totalitarian regimes to close down a free and open society, and argues powerfully that each of those ten steps is underway in the United States today. In particular, Wolf exposes how the escalation of presidential executive power has eroded the core values of the US Constitution. THE END OF AMERICA is an urgent and powerful defence of American democracy.