Carol White reviews The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin Group, New York, New York (2007).

White starts by wishing Gore were a candidate:

"That this book is not a typical campaign biography is really too bad. Would that every candidate wrote a biography of this quality! Reading it made me seriously consider enrolling in the ranks of the Draft Gore movement."

"The book presents a compelling picture of the dangerous threats to republican government in the United States. Gore discusses how, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Bush Administration has waged a consistent campaign to usurp power and justify the abrogation of traditional rights and practices by using the excuse of an amorphous terrorist threat. George Bush has in fact been the spokesperson if not architect of a major terror campaign against the American population."

Gore writes:

The truth is that American democracy is now in danger ^__ not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die.[2,3]

"But Gore does not stop there. He probes beneath the Bush Administration's well-documented encroachments upon the constitution and the rights and duties that it prescribes, to ask the searching question: How can this have happened?"

Read the rest of the review ... on the ePluribus Media Journal and then come back here to discuss!