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Ladataan... The Devil's Advocate (1952)Tekijä: Taylor Caldwell
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Literatura americana. NOVELA Really? You really think that, in 1952, the US was headed to a fascist state because of the New Deal? Really? Did you not starve in 1929-1939 like the rest of the US inhabitants? Caldwell wrote this pseudo-distopian view of what happens to the US because of government help with things like food and jobs, and how the citizens gave up all their rights and became starving, mindless inhabitants of cities from the 1940's till the events of the novel, about 1968-1970. Her New York is a city where the roads are torn up because there is no one there (like the government) to fix them. Seems this government creates wars to keep people working on the war effort so that they are working too hard to protest their lot. Sounds a lot like the folks who have 2 hour daily commutes, in fact. The timeline for the events of this book are the 1970's - boy, Caldwell must have been shocked when she saw people, young, vibrant, healthy people, taking to the streets in protest of so many things the government was doing. Like sending young men (but only the men of the poorer classes, as Caldwell does describe fittingly) to a war in which they had no choice. Seems like the past 8 years have shown a US in which citizens have their rights torn from them by virtue of the Patriot Act and similar measures to keep the populace perpetually frightened. Guess we all caught up with that mess of lies, eh? And the farmers whom Caldwell describes as fat and independent have also lost much of their power with the advent of factory farms, too. Thank goodness that the idea of food miles" has entered the vocabulary. Guess I'll continue to read it so that I can argue Caldwell and Ayn Rand with these authoritarian followers of modern John Galts and the (fictionalized) Minute Men. Yech! This book just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth when I'm not laughing so hard at the naivete in Caldwell's penned book." ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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A revolution is waged against a totalitarian regime in this "courageous" novel of a dystopian near-future America by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Chicago Tribune). In the heart of Philadelphia, insurgent Andrew Durant has been nursing a festering rage. And he's not alone. Through underground networks, he's found himself among a secret thousands, building an army called the Minute Men. They're readying themselves for war to reclaim what was once America. In the nation now known as the Democracy, independent thought is a thing of the past. The Constitution is waste paper. A conscienceless president has been appointed by the military--for life. The government has co-opted farmland crops. Citizens are divided between two classes: wealthy corporations and the destitute. Areas of the country devastated by war or natural disaster remain unchecked. On behalf of national security, neighbors are instructed to spy on one another. Exposing those who are undemocratic is law. And all dissenters are eliminated. Durant, the chosen agent for the poverty-stricken rural Democracy, finds himself increasingly isolated and afraid. Mobilizing revolutionaries has become a dangerous tactic; the Minute Men have their own traitors, infiltrators assigned to undo everything Durant and his men are fighting to conquer. Now, the rebels have only their beliefs left to trust. A stunning dystopian vision in the tradition of George Orwell's 1984 and Ayn Rand's Anthem, The Devil's Advocate is author Taylor Caldwell's "tour de force" (Kirkus Reviews). More than a half-century after its original publication, it is timelier than ever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell including rare images from the author's estate. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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