Dinesh D'Souza

Excellent walk through US history

Dinesh D’Souza delivers a well sourced and essential view of US historical politics that fills in the gaps left in the popular narrative. D’Souza traces the history of slavery through the founding of the democratic party, shows how the republican party and Lincoln fought racism and slavery leading to and through the civil war, debunks the “big lie” of the two parties switching, and goes in to argue that the democratic parties racist roots continued, although with different means, through FDR, LBJ, to Obama and how it is manifested today. Whether or not you agree with his politics this is an essential read to get a better understanding of today’s political climate.… (more)

This is a first edition, first printing, recalled copy printed August 2022. They were supposed to be pulped and it was reprinted with changes in December 2022. But, I snagged one off of eBay from some unsuspecting person. Who maybe stole it, I don't know. So, I have a rarity: an unexpurgated, recalled book.

Having not seen the documentary film that this is based on, all I can say is that the thesis, presentation, and evidence isn't wild-eyed, crazy, or outlandish. It all makes perfect sense and seems reasonable. Which is scary. Was it enough to swing an election? Maybe. It seems to have already happened in smaller races and just did again in September/October 2023 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Etc. It all seems eminently reasonable. Which is scary. It's so hard to prove. And that's the problem. Read in conjunction with Mollie Hemingway's Rigged, which tells the main story of how Big Tech, Big Media, and Covid conspired to change the voting rules and put the thumb on the scale in 2020. Add this and...… (more)