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Manufacturer: Picador
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
EAN: 9780312427993
ISBN: 0312427999
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: 2008-06-24
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Studio: Picador
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In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books."
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Summary: A shock for America?
Comment: Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" weaves together the systematic oppression of South American countries, the "help" given to Poland, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the current war in Iraq. Spotting the common threads in each instance, she then holds up the tsunami victims alongside the city of New Orleans to show the same benificiaries of government spending getting rich again. In every case, the parallel is drawn between the attempt to shape the client country's future and the medical technique of "shock therapy".
This is s a thick book but the reader intersted in trying to understand the rise of BLACKWATER, the peculiar hype around avian flu, and countless other quirks of disaster capitalism needs to read "The Shock Doctrine".
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Summary: Shock is vital
Comment: Naomi Klein has written a vitally important book for anyone who wants to understand recent US history - it gets behind the clutter of propaganda and the hot air of government briefings to reveal the important thrust of US policy at home and abroad - she deserves a pulitzer for this!
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Summary: The Shock Doctrine
Comment: Although this is a significant read, both in length and subject matter, it is actually written so it is an easy read. The words flowed and I have learned so much. I recommend this book to everyone. This is important stuff if you want to be a critical thinker when considering the news of U.S. and world events.
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Summary: Complete Garbage
Comment: Well the book is written by an anti-American Marxist Canadian author with a long history of capitalism bashing. She's married to the newly hired anchor of Al-Jazeera terrorist network Avi Lewis. Scratch these guys and they bleed hatred for the western civilization. Marxism has influenced the author so much that she is blind to the miseries of marxism and communism. The book has no serious theory. It's all about contempt for what Capitalism has done. Though she is biased. She fails to mention the terrible result of Communism and socialism. She's a Canadian and one can't expect these jealous guys to do better. They hate America out of jealousy. I give this book a zero and its author should be ashamed of herself. Go live in Cuba or North Korea if you don't like capitalist system.
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Summary: Disturbing
Comment: Disturbing because this is statist drivel.
Decidedly anti-liberty, this book is really just a series of straw men - one-dimensional analogies and arguments that purport to show us why nationalization is so great. The Klein models fosters an environment for people like Pinochet - it doesn't save us from them.
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