"'It is my argument that American liberalism is a totalitarian political religion.' Jonah Goldberg writes near the beginning of Liberal Fascism. My first reaction was that he is engaging in partisan hyperbole. That turned out to be wrong. Liberal Fascism is nothing less than a portrait of twentieth-century political history as seen through a new prism. It will affect the way I think about that history-- and about the trajectory of today's politics--forever after."
--CHARLES MURRAY, author of Human Accomplishment
and coauthor (with Richard J. Herrnstein) of The Bell Curve "Jonah Goldberg's startling thesis deserves serious attention. Going back to the eugenics movement there has been a strain of elitist moral certainty that allows one group of people to believe they have the right to determine the lives of other. We have replaced the divine right of kings with the divine tight of self-righteous groups. Goldberg will lead you to new understanding and force you to think deeply."
--NEWT GINGRICH, former Speaker of the House, author of Winning the Future
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"Jonah Goldberg argues that liberals today have doctrinal and emotional roots in twentieth-century European fascism. Many people will be shocked just by the thought that long-discredited fascism could mutate into the spirit of another age. It's always exhilarating when someone takes on received opinion, but this is not a work of pamphleteering. Goldberg's insight, supported by a great deal of learning, happens to be right."
--DAVID PRYCE-JONES, author of The Strange Death of the Soviet Union
"Jonah Goldberg brilliantly traces the intellectual roots of fascism to their surprising source, showing not only that its motivating ideas derive from the left but that the liberal fascist impulse is alive and well among contemporary progressives--and is even a temptation for compassionate conservatives."
--RONALD BAILEY, author of Liberation Biology
"In the greatest hoax of modern history, Russia's ruling 'socialist workers party,' the Communists, established themselves as the polar opposites of their two socialist clones, the National Socialist German Workers Party (quicknamed 'the Nazis') and Italy's Marxist-inspired Fascisti, by branding both as 'the fascist.' Jonah Goldberg is the first historian to detail the havoc this spin of all spins has played upon Western thought got the past seventy five years, very much including the present moment. Love it or leath is, Liberal Fascism is a book of intellectual history you won't be able to put down--in either sense of the term."
TOM WOLFE, author of A Man in Full and I Am Charlotte Simmons