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American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism by Henry A. Giroux

chandramukhi's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

2.75

tonstantweader's review

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1.0

I was looking forward to reading this book but was disgusted by the poor scholarship in the first chapter. This writer took whataboutism to a new level claiming Hillary Clinton was as dishonest as Trump because of the fake email scandal citing an op-ed by Shaun King, hardly a credible source. He then said she never talked about economic injustice, corporate power, mass incarceration, institutional racism, the school-to-prison pipeline and widespread poverty which means he did not even look at her web site list of policies. This is false.

The most common words in her campaign were jobs, economy, and workers. She started a program to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline before that term was invented. She talked about institutional racism more than any other candidate and some say that was one reason she lost. Giroux is simply a lousy and lazy writer who did no research because obviously any ambitious woman is a dishonest.

I received a copy from the publisher through Edelweiss, but I did not finish. I was too disgusted.
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