I bought
The Overton Window for my husband for Father's Day (and 2 shirts). So far, he's enjoying it. We've been married almost 50 years and I can't recall ever seeing him read fiction. I don't read much fiction myself, but thought I'd be the one reading this.
"Glenn Beck's latest bestseller is a work of fiction -- but the method of political subversion it is based on is all too real. Named after its originator, the late Josef P. Overton, "The Overton Window" is a way of manipulating public opinion so that ideas once thought of as radical become acceptable -- while ideas once considered mainstream become fringe. Move "the window" of acceptable opinion and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country. " NRBS
It's been resting comfortably at the top of the NYT list and Amazon, and of course has been panned and criticized by the
LA Times, WaPo, and
NYT. I mean, could Glenn Beck do anything well? I think he has more subscribers than the
New York Times does.
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I think I'll probably order that book. It sounds like it would be a good read.
Murray sez:
If you are the Carol I know then you NEED to read it!
No, she's not "our" Carol. But she writes a great blog--so you can drop in and read it.
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