Dinesh D'Souza, the most original and controversial writer on politics and society in the country today, uncovers the links between the spread of American pop culture, leftist ideas, and secular values and the rise of anti-Americanism throughout the world.
In The Enemy at Home, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza makes the startling claim that the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts around the world can be directly traced to the ideas and attitudes perpetrated by America's cultural left.
D'Souza shows that liberals—people like Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Moyers, and Michael Moore—are responsible for fostering a culture that angers and repulses not just Muslim countries but also traditional and religious societies around the world. Their outspoken opposition to American foreign policy-including the way the Bush administration is conducting the war on terror-contributes to the growing hostility, encouraging people both at home and abroad to blame America for the problems of the world. He argues that it is not our exercise of freedom that enrages our enemies but rather our abuse of that freedom—from the sexual liberty or women to the support of gay marriage, birth control, and no-fault divorce, to the aggressive exploitation of our vulgar, licentious popular culture.
The cultural wars at home and the global war on terror are usually viewed as separate problems. In this groundbreaking book, D'Souza shows that they are one and the same. It is only by curtailing the left's attack on religion, family, and traditional values that we can persuade moderate Muslims and others around the world to cooperate with us and to begin to shun the extremists in their own countries.
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"I agree with most of what he says, blaming the crap in American culture for some of the backlash we're seeing from the more traditionally minded world, but I think setting up American liberals to take the fall for 9/11 is unnecessarily inflammatory. "
— Bethany (4 out of 5 stars)
This audio presentation has the perfect narrator in Michael Kramer, who manages to achieve an almost sublime objectivity in delivery.
— AudioFile" This book has some great material in it regarding Islamic extremism and how people on the political left and right fail to understand it. Unfortunately, the author also tries to affix blame on the political left and does so unconvincingly. American cultural rot has been an all hands affair. "
— Peter, 12/10/2012" A great book exposing the lefts responsibility for 911 and other problems our country is facing. A real eye opener to liberal bias in the media as well...you'll never watch the news the same way again. "
— Dustin, 6/3/2012" I agree with most of what he says, blaming the crap in American culture for some of the backlash we're seeing from the more traditionally minded world, but I think setting up American liberals to take the fall for 9/11 is unnecessarily inflammatory. "
— Bethany, 9/4/2010" So far he has argued persuasively about both the dangers of both conservative and Liberal approaches to foreign policy. "
— Kathleenob, 6/23/2010" I just didn't agree with what this author had to say about the so called liberals. "
— Indrani, 3/9/2009" A great book exposing the lefts responsibility for 911 and other problems our country is facing. A real eye opener to liberal bias in the media as well...you'll never watch the news the same way again. "
— Dustin, 1/21/2009" So far he has argued persuasively about both the dangers of both conservative and Liberal approaches to foreign policy. "
— Kathleenob, 10/14/2008" I just didn't agree with what this author had to say about the so called liberals. "
— Indrani, 5/23/2008Dinesh D’Souza is the author of several books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Obama’s America, America), and Hillary’s America. He is also political commentator and filmmaker and a former White House domestic policy analyst and research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2014, he pleaded guilty to the felony offense of campaign finance fraud and then was pardoned in 2018 by President Donald Trump.
Michael Kramer is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, and recipient of a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. He is also an actor and director in the Washington, DC, area, where he is active in the area’s theater scene and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.