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Two Steps Ahead Of The Thought Police: Essays
Two Steps Ahead Of The Thought Police Essays
Author: John Leo
John Leo is one of the liveliest, funniest, and most insightful commentators in America. No one gets to the heart of a social issure more quickly, or with more sharpness and wit. Ranging widely over popular culture, law, education, politics, and language, Leo writes about Ozzie and Harriet, "bodice-ripping" novels, the sneaky side of t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780671886981
ISBN-10: 0671886983
Publication Date: 7/1/1994
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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If satire and sarcasm could achieve victory against political correctness as easily as trumpets did against the walls of Jericho, Leo would be a modern Joshua. Those who have followed his column in U.S. News & World Report know that the annihilation of what he sees to be pomposities, fakes, frauds, and fatuities is his stock in trade. Leo goes in deep like a sharp, polished knife. The general drift of his arguments are politically and socially conservative; but even liberals should take time out to read him, if only just to discover how formidably armed the opposition is. Leo tells the truth as he sees it. It may not be everybody's truth, but no one who reads the book will fail to be provoked and/or stimulated.


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