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    Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
    Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
    Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
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    Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

    Written by Mark R. Levin

    Narrated by Mark R. Levin and Adam Grupper

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    In his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark R. Levin explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects—the Founding Fathers, and its modern-day disciples—and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it.

    Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government. As Levin meticulously pursues his subject, the reader joins him in an enlightening and compelling journey. And in the end, Levin’s message is clear: the American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty.

    President Ronald Reagan warned, “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Levin agrees, and with Ameritopia, delivers another modern political classic, an indispensable guide for America in our time and in the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781442349117
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    Mark R. Levin

    Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk radio host, host of LevinTV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty, & Levin, is the author of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, Unfreedom of the Press, and American Marxism. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School.

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    • 5/5
      This book is a must read. It demonstrates the inexorable slide of American Republicanism toward a state with despotic inclinations. It illustrates the roadmap that progressives have followed, shines light on the motivations they keep secret and displays the guiding principles by which modern liberals operate.

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    • 4/5
      Brilliant book.....the message and research are almost unparalleled. This would have been another 5-star book for me if it hadn't been so difficult to read. Levin included a LOT of philosophy in this book, and I'm just not that good at reading philosophy. If you can read this book and understand it, you will realize that, America, it is time to WAKE UP.
    • 5/5
       Very informative about the slow movement of our country to a socialist type siciety.
    • 4/5
      Mark Levin’s “Ameritopia” is a difficult and sobering read but deeply informative. More than a political rant, which Mr. Levin is known for, “Ameritopia” is a tour-de-force of comparative political and philosophical theories and systems and their influences on the founding fathers as they struggled to write the U. S. Constitution.In the manner of a Master’s thesis, Mr. Levin compares and contrasts the collective utopian dreams of Plato’s “Republic,” Hobbes’s “Leviathan, and More’s “Utopia” - and their inevitable nightmares – with John Locke’s “Nature of Man” arguments and Montesquieu’s notions on republican government. He does it in such a way that it becomes apparent that the American founders literally assembled the Constitution from Locke’s and Montesquieu’s writings, almost word-for-word at times, wholly rejecting the notion of governmental collectivism and radical egalitarianism, concentrating instead on the rights and freedom of the individual. He goes on to compare the newly formed American Democracy with the tenets of Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” and ends with Alexis de Tocqueville’s observations of America’s character, its success and its likely pitfalls.Again, not an easy read but one that serious students of Americanism and individual freedom will keep as a reference and reread, in part or in toto, to fully grasp the intellectual scope of Levin’s arguments, positions, and conclusions.