Fascism: A warning by Madeleine Albright is a book I picked up because it is hard to resist a Secretary of State talking about Fascism.
Started: 5/20/2019?
Completed: 6/24/2019
Recommendation: Mild recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
Secretary Albright offers this quotation, "A lie is not another side of the story; it is just a lie." I cannot find the source of this quotation, it seems to be a saying. I think it is an important saying and I will remember it.
The book is not a call to arms to protect the USA from Fascism. Rather it is a historical overview followed by a caution. The "warning" of the subtitle is that things are trending really well right now in many places, the USA included.
I liked listening to Secretary Albright narrate this book. She provided emphasis where I knew she intended that emphasis to be. It was interesting to hear her nuance of her comfortable prose. The book is a good overview and I learned interesting trivia (Putin's grandfather was Stalin's cook, Mussolini was a meticulous ruler, and Kim Jong Il was well spoken). I picked up a biography of Mussolini as a result of this book and it will eventually show up (maybe 10 years from now, but he will be no less dead in the interim).
Secretary Albright offers this quotation, "A lie is not another side of the story; it is just a lie." I cannot find the source of this quotation, it seems to be a saying. I think it is an important saying and I will remember it.
The book is not a call to arms to protect the USA from Fascism. Rather it is a historical overview followed by a caution. The "warning" of the subtitle is that things are trending really well right now in many places, the USA included.
I liked listening to Secretary Albright narrate this book. She provided emphasis where I knew she intended that emphasis to be. It was interesting to hear her nuance of her comfortable prose. The book is a good overview and I learned interesting trivia (Putin's grandfather was Stalin's cook, Mussolini was a meticulous ruler, and Kim Jong Il was well spoken). I picked up a biography of Mussolini as a result of this book and it will eventually show up (maybe 10 years from now, but he will be no less dead in the interim).
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