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Title: An excellent book, though poorly titled
Review: The title would lead one to expect a Coulter/Moore style flame-fest. The preface and introduction make clear, however, that Gold is offering a political-philosophical memoir. He will disappoint those who wish to be told what to do and think. Instead he offers his story as an entry point into a conversation about how, as involved citizens, we may preserve and even redeem our civilization.Gold's perspective could be described as both conservative and liberal: conservative in his desire to preserve the best of our inherited traditions as ground to build from--liberal in his openess to new and necessary ideas. Notably, he insists on seeing the humanity in those he has disagreed with and even broken with.
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