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#1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
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By reclusive one
It's a shame that such a great work of history from the Age of Enlightenment was used by a neo-con corporatist right-wing hack like Beck. Taking the words and works of the Founders of this nation and twisting them to fit their fascist views is nothing new; but tastless, vulgar and an insult to the true history, writings, and thought of that age. Being the mediocre he is; Beck doesn't realize that if the Founders were alive today they would include him and his ilk amoung the enemies of freedom and individual rights. But we now no longer live in an age of enlightenment; we live in an age of ignorant right-wing fundelmentalism preached by braying jackasses.
By J. Cuffari
Forget this nut and his far out ideas, cloaked in seemingly rationale speech. Read Paine, then refresh yourself further with the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers. We need Beck's input like we need another term of the Bushes.
By FTW CHRIS
As an ex Intelligence Officer this book brings of the true facts
under one cover. MUST READ if you Love America. God Bless our
troops from the Pilgrims to Afgan/Irag.
By tvtv3 (Sorento, IL United States)
I really don't enjoy listening to Sean Hannity and am increasingly finding Rush Limbaugh to be a rich and pompous bore. However, I do enjoy listening to Glenn Beck. He's extremely passionate about what he talks and writes about, but is also highly entertaining and most of the time he also makes a great deal of sense. That's a problem in politics in our country; there's very little logic and reason to anything and is instead based upon failed progressive policies of the past.
Originally Beck had planned to release his COMMON SENSE anonymously via the Internet and have anyone be able to download it for free. However, because of publishing contracts Beck wasn't able to do that and had to release this treatise in a published book. That's the reason the book is so short.
Inspired by Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, Beck's book of the same titled is divided into six sections: the reshaping and redefining of America, money, the U.S. tax code, the perks and privileges of politicians, progressivism, and a call to action. None of these sections are very long and some are better written than others. However, they do contain important information that every American should know about, including some information that many federal politicians would wish that average Americans didn't know about, e.g. the redistricting of Congressional districts after every census. Even though many of his points aren't expanded upon as much as I would like to see, they are mostly well-made.
I realize that there are many who won't even bother reading this book because Glenn Beck's name is on it. That's a shame. I'll admit that some of the writing in the book is a bit lackluster, but that doesn't make the message contained within any less important or critical.
Overall, I enjoyed reading GLENN BECK'S COMMON SENSE even though I already was familiar with much of what he has written about. I do think it was a nice touch to contain Thomas Paine's original COMMON SENSE in the back of the book. You can make comparisons between the two and see that though they are quite different in style, they are similar in format and substance. Recommended reading for anyone who cares about America and the political misdirection of the past 9 years.
By Hello
The waste that occurs in our government has reached unbelievable levels and Glenn Beck brings it to light in this book. Just like the title says, it exposes the logical, common sense approaches to many of the issues that America faces and the policies that our civil servants come up with, which are the exact opposite.
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