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...Ever since his early days as an advocate of alternative healing and nutrition, Chopra has been a magnet for criticism - most of it from the medical and scientific communities. Accusations have ranged from the dismissive - Chopra is just another huckster purveying watered-down Eastern wisdom mixed with pseudo science and pop psychology - to the outright damning. Chopra's extravagant claims for Ayurveda and other traditional healing techniques can, some have argued, create false hope in genuinely ill people and dissuade them from seeking medical care and guidance. Chopra has weathered all such claims, either with smiling equanimity or, on occasion...
Florida's history is lush with volatility and flimflam. As Groucho Marx's real estate huckster warned in The Cocoanuts in 1929, "You can even get stucco! Oh, how you can get stucco." But eventually, the lies always seemed to come true, because there were always new dreamers from cold climates, and worthless swampland was just a drainage canal and a zoning variance away from becoming a golf-course subdivision...
...best when politicians, actors, intergovernmental panels, activists, socialists and rock stars lecture about stopping global warming. Climate change is a fact. Man-made global warming is a farce. Gore dropped out of divinity school with failing grades, but that hasn't stopped him from traveling around like an evangelist huckster, preaching his phony religion of man-made global warming. Go get a degree in science...
...return to political combat. But at heart, it is a patient, meticulous examination of how the participatory democracy envisioned by our founders has gone awry-how the American marketplace of ideas has gradually devolved into a home-shopping network of 30-second ads and mall-tested phrases, a huckster's paradise that sells simulated participation to a public that has all but lost the ability to engage. Gore builds his argument from deep drafts of political and social history and trenchant bits of information theory, media criticism, computer science and neurobiology, and reading him is by turns exhausting and exhilarating...
...huckster, but Gitomer has earned his bragging rights. The Charlotte, N.C., writer has had four consecutive books on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list, beginning with Little Red Book of Selling, which has appeared on the list for an impressive 102 weeks and has moved more than 400,000 copies. The latest, Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude, a pastiche of self-help homilies, just hit No. 1, and Gitomer, 60, has another on the way: Little Green Book of Getting Your Way, a tiny tome on persuasion, due out in April. "I have enough for another half...