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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Synopsis:
In the tradition of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Marshall, Sundance-award winning director and co-founder of Guerrilla News Network, hits the road and travels from the front lines of the Iraq War, through the wasteland of the former communist Eastern bloc, into a coke-dusted sex party of Britain's intellectual elite and into the minds of America's most influential liberal figures. Marshall recounts his meetings and conversations with Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, David Horowitz, Lewis Lapham, John Avlon, the Economist's John Micklethwait, the Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and best-selling authors Naomi Klein, Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman, and John Perkins. He finds that American liberals have dumped the '60s era radicalism of their youth and become complicit in a complex game of bait-and-switch, selling the world a vision of liberal democracy in which they, in fact, no longer believe. Have liberals buckled under the pressure of America's declining fortunes and taken on the role of the good cop to the conservative's bad?
ISBN: 978-1-932857-42-9
US Price: $16.95
Street Date: April 15, 2007
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Genre:
Political Science, Current Affairs
Author: Stephen Marshall
Pages: 384 pages
Quotes:
Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.orgMarshall takes on some of the biggest names in liberal thought and leaves them bleeding from their own contradictions and posturing. Austin American-Statesman Marshall's skillful narration and willingness to go seemingly anywhere for an interview make Wolves in Sheep's Clothing eminently readable. Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Marshall cuts into the bleeding heart of liberalism to expose the apostates and the apostles. A guidebook to the perplexed of Gen X and Y - who to trust, who to trash.
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