Glenn Beck's Common Sense

The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...."

Nearly two and a half centuries after Thomas Paine's masterpiece changed America forever, Glenn Beck revisits it with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.

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An Inconvenient Book - Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems

Now available in paperback with a new introduction Buy Now from Amazon.com Buy Now from Barnes and Noble Buy Now from Borders Buy Now from Books-A-Million Funny.  Outrageous.  True.  And Now a NY Times #1 Bestseller. Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty never seem to get fixed? Take poverty, for example.  Over the last forty years, America’s ten poorest cities all had one simple thing in common but self-serving politicians will never tell you what that is (or explain how easy it would be to change):  Glenn Beck will (see Chapter 20). Global warming is another issue that’s ripe with lies, distortion and hidden agendas.  For example, how many times have you heard that carbon dioxide is responsible for huge natural disasters that have killed millions of people?  The truth is, it’s actually the other way around: as CO2 has increased, deaths from extreme weather have decreased. Bet you’ll never see that in Al Gore’s slideshow. But while An Inconvenient Book solves serious problems, it never takes itself too seriously.  That’s why you’ll find Glenn’s rants on tipping, dating, and parenting right alongside chapters on the income gap, child molesters, and the United Nations (although it’s pretty hard to take the comedy out of the U.N.). After 22 chapters, you’ll be shocked and saddened at how political correctness, special interests, and outright stupidity have trumped common sense.  Unfortunately, you’ll probably still be laughing too hard to do anything about it.

America's March to Socialism - Why we're one step closer to giant missile parades

Audio Sample Audio Sample 2 Only on Audio! One small step toward big government, one giant leap toward missile parades...

Buy Now from Amazon.com Buy Now from Barnes and Noble Buy Now from Books-A-Million Download from Audible.com "The Glenn Beck Program presents: More truth behind America's March to Socialism." So begins one of the most popular regular segments of Glenn Beck's top-rated daily radio program. Now, in this audio exclusive, unavailable in any other format, America's March To Socialism collects over an hour of the most memorable, insightful and controversial of these segments into an audio program that will inspire the ever-expanding base who know Beck from his phenomenally successful radio and television series and his #1 bestselling books. From massive government spending to media declarations of the death of capitalism, Glenn Beck hears the sounds of boots marching America toward a system of government that bears a closer resemblance to socialism with each passing day. To document this, he focuses on stories that range from the headlines - irresponsible stimulus spending, greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs, instant unionization efforts - to more obscure local stories that might otherwise be overlooked, such as Chicago's out-of-towners tax, and Connecticut's attempt to undermine the authority of the Catholic Church. He also provides snapshots of the encroaching progress of socialistic programs from around the world, railing against the Europeans' call for a global New Deal. A visionary, provocative call to action, as timely and courageous as his #1 blockbuster An Inconvenient Book, America's March To Socialism presents Glenn Beck at his absolute, irreverent and authoritative best.

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If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You?

#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.

We weren't wealthy, we weren't poor—we just were. We never wanted for anything, except maybe more time together....

When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder—and money tighter—since his father died and the family bakery closed...Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.

What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.

Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family—and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell—to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart.

Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives—while also making us question if we really know what's most important in them.

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There are some things people think but don't say....

"Political correctness is the classic Great Idea Gone Wrong. All it's done is shut us up. It hasn't changed anybody's mind. It hasn't changed our hearts. It's changed our faces. It's taken every opinion we have, it's taken every joke we have, and it's forced us to conceal it and hide it and bury it. It's made us superficial."

"Terrorism isn't caused by poverty, poverty is caused by terrorism. Terror is a tool used by those seeking power to keep the masses in need of an answer."

"Too many people blame everything on everybody else, and because they do, they will expect too little from themselves and too little from their children."

With an inimitable combination of self-effacing humor and heartfelt conviction, Glenn rails against many of the forces that keep us from our potential as a nation and as individuals -- and tells how to overcome them. His topics include:

Family and community

Politics

Personal responsibility

Political correctness, the media, Hollywood, and celebrities

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
by David Pietrusza

Summary: Pietrusza's (Rothstein) chronicle of the presidential election of 1920 is absorbing, despite the subtitle's rather tangential claim that the election involved six men who had served or would serve as president: Harding, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover and both Roosevelts (though Teddy had died in 1919). This book isn't really about them, nor is it merely the story of one electoral race. Rather, Pietrusza is telling a grander tale, of a country toppling into "modernity, or what passed for it."

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Summary: The authors use behavioral patterns to explain complex economics and the origins of the current financial mess. They use economics to explain real life issues in an easy to understand way.

Glenn’s review: Glenn said it helped him understand the attitudes and ideas that govern economic actions.

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Summary: The author worries that the world economy may continue to spiral downward. He focuses on four men worldwide who he thinks caused the worst depression. Mr. Ahamed draws many parallels from the past to today’s global financial downturn.

Glenn’s review: Glenn loved the historical approach to the current economic crisises.

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Summary: This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author of a given selection is writing.

Glenn’s review: A 'readable' must read about the roots of the Progressive movement in America...

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Summary: Rand’s unique philosophy is presented in a fiction book as topical today as it was 50 years ago. Larger than life, John Galt, is the hero of this thriller about what happens when the industrialists and innovators of our country disappear. Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” according to a survey conducted by the Library of Congress and The Book of the Month Club

Glenn’s review: This book was published in 1957 but is as important in today’s climate as it was when it was first published. Readers will be shocked at how Rand foresaw the economic travails brought upon this country.

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Summary: Gellately contends the Soviet and Nazi systems developed simultaneously and both were influenced by Lenin. A very readable history of two inhumane dictatorships

Glenn’s review: Another history book that will help us understand the past and how it affects our future

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Summary: In this book, highly recommended by Glenn’s staff, Coben takes his readers to Paris where his detective hero, Myron Bolitar, tries to help an old girl friend whose husband has been murdered. He works to uncover a sinister plot with shocking global implications.

Glenn’s review: Can’t wait to read it. Staff says it is a can’t put down thriller incorporating modern medical technology and some disturbing interrogation techniques.

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Summary: This book explores the nature of survival and how the little things we do may determine whether we live or die..Sherwood says that survival is a way of perceiving the world around you.

Glenn’s review: Glenn says this book is fantastic and has interviewed Mr. Sherwood numerous times. He notes it is an amazing book about the mystery of survival and has important messages for today’s times.

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Summary: A careful analysis of the economic policies of President Roosevelt and the author’s conclusion that it was a disaster.

Glenn’s review: “I didn’t learn this in school” Glenn spent the weekend reading it and says it is a must read to help understand our current fiscal problems.

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Summary: Woods explains what led to the economic crisis and who is to blame. He contends the bailouts will not work and only provide temporary relief.

Glenn’s review: One of the two books on the economy that Glenn read all weekend and recommends everyone read. Clear, concise and easy to understand.

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Description: How Today's Obsessions with Control Ownership and Independence are destroying the quality of our lives.

Glenn’s Comments: “It is well worth the read just to open up your mind, shake the cobwebs off and challenge what you think you know… The ‘Serendipity’ chapter alone is worth the price of admission.”

5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas that Changed the World
by W. Cleon Skousen

Description: All about the philosophies of the founders of our government and why this country needs to be a virtuous country.

Glenn's Comments: Amen to that. One of those books that you pick up and read a chapter here and there.

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Liberal Fascism
by Jonah Goldberg

Description: “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?

Glenn's Comments: Fascism with a smiley face, it's already here.

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A series dedicated to helping Americans understand and appreciate the Founders and the remarkable system of free government which they gave us. Discover who these great men really were in The Real George Washington, The Real Thomas Jefferson, and The Real Benjamin Franklin.