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| Power to the People | 
 enlarge | Author: Laura Ingraham
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  128 reviews
Sales Rank: 5358
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 159698516X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.097309045
EAN: 9781596985162
ASIN: 159698516X
Publication Date: September 11, 2007
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Book Description
Top-rated radio personality Laura Ingraham is fed up with the rule of the elites, and POWER TO THE PEOPLE issues a call to arms-a plea to reinvigorate our birthright of liberty, to reconnect to our American heritage, to revive our commitment to traditional, conservative principles, and to grow as people by summoning our moral resolve and living our faith. Ingraham exposes the threats we face from an emboldened cultural Left, global dogmatists, science worshippers, and politicians who spend more time on their hair than on constituency outreach. She also offers real-world solutions for how we can demand more from our leaders and ourselves. POWER TO THE PEOPLE will not just rile up Ingraham's millions of fans, it will also incite readers to do their part to protect the country that we love. "It is ours to lose," she writes, "and there are many at home and abroad who are more than willing to take it from us. Let's get to work. If each of us does our part, we can't lose." And amidst these rallying cries and clarion calls to America, Ingraham reveals with heart wrenching honesty and in poignant detail her battle with cancer and the surprising gifts the insidious illness bestowed upon her - incredible strength through weakness, the meaning of sacrificial concern for others, and most importantly, a new-found and deeper faith. In true Laura Ingraham spitfire style, POWER TO THE PEOPLE rallies Americans to grab their pitchforks and storm the castles of the old media, over-reaching judges, openborders politicians, radical academics, and unelected bureaucrats. She challenges people to not only take back the power, but to also give of themselves to recapture America's spirit and greatness.
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 Great guide for taking back our power and country May 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book needs to be read every 3 to 6 months until the people understand what their duty as citizens entails. The free ride is over and is going nowhere. It's time for all citizens to become active in who governs them and Laura Ingraham lays out a very simple way for people to take back our power.
 power to the (rich, conservative) people May 26, 2008
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
blah, blah, blah. this blowhard is typical of the rightwing media talking head of the moment--uninformed about everything but prepared to talk as though she is an expert on everything.
More of the same , , , May 17, 2008
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
I wish I could give this publication no stars. A relative sent this book to "enlighten" us. Thank goodness we didn't spend money on it. Ms. Ingraham seems to be another "talking head" promoting themselves and their divisive messages. It's frightening to think that people believe what they read in these biased and bigoted books. Ms. Ingraham recommends "spying and videotaping" American Muslim mosque services and activities, school board meetings, and any other groups who advocate "civil liberties" and ideas with which she doesn't agree. She also states that Americans should have freedom of speech and be able to express their disagreement with the government, but not in the case of the Iraq War because that may lead the terrorist enemies to believe all of America is not "united" in this war! Save your money and just turn on FOX news, you'll hear the same messages repeated all day.
Sometimes, the truth doesn't hurt... April 27, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Laura Ingraham has a way of getting people worked up - some think her words bluntly and brightly resonate truths that get little mass media credence, while others get their high-waisted panties in a visceral twist over what they view as just "more conservative blather."
If you're of the latter group, this book is wasted on you. No matter what, you'll hate it. It doesn't matter how well documented the facts presented are (and they are), and it won't make a bit of difference how logically they are presented.
Ingraham reflectively champions traditional families, stonger borders, and less cultural pollution, and she takes to task any person or institution (including prominent Republicans such as President Bush and Senator McCain) that undermines these intuitive necessities for a civil, healthy society.
In this way, Power to the People is not a political book in that it espouses a particular party line, but rather, it's a call to common sense that extends across party lines and recalls the positive ideals of a recent past that have been rejected simply because such a rejection of traditional values is viewed as more "politically correct" or "enlightened" or "popular" than the acceptance of them. These would be just some of the specious and shallow reasons many use as the basis for their core beliefs, and Ingraham has little patience for such.
Ingraham's bottom line: get really educated (not indoctrinated) on the issues that matter most, and then get involved in a meaningful way. It's a message that should hit home with most reasonable people.
Elites in Government, Schools and the Entertainment World run wild!!!! What to do???? Give back power to the people, natch!!!!!! April 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Laura Ingraham's Power to the People, as the title implies, is sort of a populist screed, but this isn't necessarily repugnant. At least Ingraham's populism is directed towards the proper targets: the elites in government who have plotted to force an amnesty bill over the will of the majority of Americans; the elites in society/culture who are insisting on forcing all kinds of lewd sm*t down the throats of teenagers/kids; and the elites in education (particularly the so-called Ivory Tower types) who are guilty of indoctrinating teens and college students. If this pattern of unmasking the ruinous elements of society sounds familiar, it's because IT IS! In fact, Ingraham's prior book--cuttingly entitled "Shut Up and Sing"--from 2003 covered much of the same topics, so this tome is hardly revolutionary. However, somewhat of a retread from Ingraham is still engaging and informative.
Ingraham's aim in Power to the People is not to be divisive; in fact, she even writes that the purpose of her book is to "unify" Republicans, Dems, and Independents through commonsense measures that largely all Americans can benefit from. If you ask me, while her intent is idealistic, it's not realistic as Republicans and Dems clash on the defining issues of the day, which is good and well because that gives a person clear differences between the two. It follows that the enemies cited by Ingraham are the elites, not so much the libs, but simply the elites "on both sides" who are basically overriding the will of the American people by assuming they know what's best. With that tangent, Ingraham's too civil for my liking as it's clear that the majority of elitist transgression comes from the liberal side...PERIOD. End of story.
Capitalizing on last year's monstrous capitulation of the amnesty bill (the Kennedy-Pelosi-Reid-McCain-Bush one!), Ingraham is quick to present that as exhibit one in her list of affronts of elites who are taking away power from the people. The amnesty bill is, of course, the one that godly conservatives thankfully played a large hand in destroying--especially House Republicans and the talk radio crowd--and the one which would've granted a guest worker program to illegals while allowing them to remain in the US and sending remittances home. Ingraham gives context to exactly what kinds of strategies were used by Americans putting pressure on their elected officials--such basics as mass-phoning campaigns and mini demonstrations outside politicians' offices--yet these are largely obvious. She also touts the principle of hiring Americans and having wages rise as another way to curb illegal immigration. Again, very basic stuff that anyone familiar with the subject should know.
A good chapter is the one on the Imperial Judiciary, basically any court that legislates from the bench by ideology instead of behaving like good, constructionist judges who merely follow the law in their rulings. Again, in-the-know political readers will already be aware of this, but Ingraham's recap is meritable because it enumerates the predicament of judicial tyrants on the bench. One, they are anti-federalist because they invalidate decisions by voters at the local and state levels; two, they undermine executive branch powers; three, they subvert America's Judeo-Christian heritage; and four, they weaken the Constitution by relying on international law, whatever the hell that is!!!!
The best chapter is the one entitled "Saving our `p*rnified' Culture," simply because this topic of social decay is hardly touched on today; in fact, Ingraham's chapter on this predicament is one of the best out there, currently. Ingraham bemoans the death of innocence among today's youth and confirms it with examples. For instance, the cultural landscape--landfill, really--is overflowing with noxious and salacious themes marketed directly at children. Whereas only a few decades ago entertainment was slanted towards more wholesome fare for teens (like Donny Osmond et al), nowadays, varmint like rapper Akon (who simulated rape of a teen girl on stage) are trendy among teens. To boot, everything is over-sexualized so songs from mainstream artists like Justin Timberlake are infested with nothing but sexual innuendo after sexual innuendo.
Despite the fact I'm familiar with Ingraham due to her previous books and frequent, FNC appearances, I prefer Coulter and Malkin to her because they're more aggressive and not so uncommonly concerned with being "unified," as Ingraham apparently is.
The most evocative part of Power to the People is when Ingraham intimates about her personal life including being struck with cancer in 2005--this actually cost her her impending marriage at the time. I also didn't know that Ingraham didn't convert to Catholicism until just a couple of years before cancer struck her. Because of her experience with cancer, Ingraham ends up having a superlative view of what to live life by/for. Near the book's end, she stresses the Christian message--including quotes by Mother Theresa--that sacrifice is an essentially integral part of life if one wants to experience the true meaning of love. This motif of sacrifice ties in to much of Ingraham's opinions on how America can "find itself" again from all the cultural decay. This was a somewhat touching way to end her book.
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