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...While some editorialists heap on the derision, others just puzzle over how a metaphysical twist on a familiar idea—long available in books like Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich?? and Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking”—is able to occupy the number two spot on the Amazon.com bestsellers list...
...students; meritocracy has ensured this. For another, we have mitigating factors, like the concentration system which developed after Eliot, to ensure that students maintain a degree of academic expertise. The goal, as Eliot put it, was to ignore what he called “the stupid sons of the rich?? and focus on the people who might actually benefit from the use of free will...
...Rich??s slightly more interesting observations is that Democrats would be equally tempted to take advantage of this new American mentality: “The Bush White House certainly did not invent this culture. It has been years in the making and it is bipartisan. But this administration was the first to take office after it was fully on-line and was brilliant at exploiting it to serve its own selfish reality-remaking ends...
...media gets an especially bad whipping from Rich??not just the obvious suspect Fox News, but also other major networks and even Rich??s own employer—for becoming pawns in White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s PR game. Rich goes on to call the past five years, “an embarrassing era for the American news media.” He does, however, praise several journalists, including The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, who first broke the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, for continuing journalistic integrity...
...what makes this book such a pleasure to read is Rich??s masterly ability to weave together many disparate elements into a coherent whole. Instead of just smattering random allegations against the current executive office, each individual incident becomes part of a larger, more sinister scheme...