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Publisher: Threshold Editions
List Price: $11.99
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Rating:  1115 reviews
Sales Rank: 319
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1439168571
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.3
EAN: 9781439168578
ASIN: 1439168571
Publication Date: June 16, 2009
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Condition: Good: Very minimal damage to the cover no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks minimal wear binding majority of pages undamaged minimal creases or tears minimal pencil underlining of text no highlighting of text no writing in margins no missing pages you would use it yourself but wouldnt necessarily give it as a gift. (Airport Place Books does not ship on Saturdays and Sundays.)
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 Sorry, Mr Beck, you can't have Tom Paine March 9, 2010
W. M. E. Pitcaithly
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Glenn Beck is at the forefront of the Republican purity purge. He's constantly denouncing this or that GOP politician for deviations from his ideological line. Recently, he extended this into the past, attacking Teddy Roosevelt as a RINO because he once made an inoccuous comment about being in favor of wealth as long as it was acquired by means that weren't socially destructive (apparently Beck is in favor of socially destructive behaviour as long as it produces wealth for someone).
And yet, he's done the reverse here: he's tried to claim an icon of the Left as being on HIS side. Tom Paine, whose objection to onerous taxes was a) that the burden fell too heavily on the poor (so he proposed hiking taxes on the rich, including a top land tax of 100%) and b) that it was spent on court placeholders and the war machine instead of being used to help the unfortunate ("defense", meaning offense, is the one area Beck WOULDN'T cut if he were in power). Paine practically _invented_ the redistributive purpose which is precisely what Beck and his ilk hate so much about tax.
The Beckbots lap this stuff up. They've never read any Tom Paine: they've been told about Common Sense by someone who didn't understand it, and they don't know that he wrote anything else. Even the First Part of The Rights of Man would probably be too egalitarian for them; if they ever read Part Two (OMG socialism!), or The Age of Reason (ZOMG atheism!), let alone Agrarian Justice (OMFG communism!), their heads would explode. One might think that, once Mr Beck had told them the name, they'd at least look it up on Wikipedia. Do they have no curiosity at all? Are they actively afraid of learning anything?
The Right can't have Thomas Paine, Mr Beck. You might as well try to claim Karl Marx.
 Best Book I've read in years! March 7, 2010
Brenda K. Brooks (Gilbert, AZ United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have not read this eye-opening type of book in years. It is to the point, and nothing left out!
Good book to start a fire with March 2, 2010
Leanne S. Serrato
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hated it. Beck alienated me in the introduction but I pushed on and forced myself to finish it. Here's my problem: please people if you truly want to understand Thomas Paine then read Thomas Paine. Primary sources are a much better way to get what a person is saying. Secondary sources are someone telling you what someone else thinks-occasionally helpful but always subjective. Also everyone knows that complaining and ranting get old without offers of solutions. I hope people take him for the comedic media person he is and not a true journalist or writer in any sense of the word.
Pass it on! February 27, 2010
Jason J. Roth (PA, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a quick and easy read, and may serve to open the eyes of a "complacent" friend or family member. Probably would have worked better (less threatening) without Beck's name on it, but hopefully a little effort will convince skeptics to give it a chance! Don't let the book sit on your shelf, pass it on! Let's wake up and make our voice heard. This standing on the sidelines thing is not working out too well....
If you got it you don't need this book February 22, 2010
Michael Darragh
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like Glenn. For the most part I enjoy his show both radio and TV unless he gets into preaching the end of the world scenario's but, he should not be writing books. I bought this just after I got my wife his Christmas Sweater book. She didn't like that and I didn't like this. I had already read the Paine book which was also a pain to get through and Beck's book wasn't much better. It was simplistic at best and didn't bring forth any new or insightful information. I actually new everything he had written about - it was that simplistic.
Beck is a good entertainer and makes many good points on radio and TV but he should leave penning them to people who can actually get their point across with the written word.
As an aside, it always interest me to see how many people either believe that guys like Beck walk on water versus those who have an inexplicable hate for the man. He's neither god nor the devil, he just a guy. At any rate, don't waste your money on this unless you never used any common sense yourself.
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