New Book Challenges Old Right-Left Division in Politics I am the author of the recently published ‘The Left is Seldom Right’ (New English Review Press) which documents the inherent bias of much of the American cultural establishment and academia as well as the media. I argue that although the terms Left and Right have lost much of their original meaning and are often misleading, there is nevertheless a strong bias that the public has absorbed from film producers, Hollywood celebrities, media ‘pundits’, authors, and academics against Conservatives through the use of the term “Right”. I attach an outline of the table of contents a review from amazon for your interest and believe that its wider dissemination would be of benefit and interest to your organization as well as aid the conservative cause in 2014 and 2016. I believe my book makes a contribution to better understanding how those on the fringes of both the extremes of both Left and the Right glorify and deify abstractions such as “The Nation”, the King, the Working Class, the Church and worst of all “The People”, promising to wipe away all the humiliations of the past and privilege. The book consists of 25 case studies of major domestic and international crises, wars, alliances, conflicts, issues, and elections that have been the subject of considerable media opinion and comment and most often by the use of misleading Left-Right terminology. You can find my website at nberdichevsky. A challenging and provocative look at the history of “right wing” vs. “left wing” political movements and personalities. Dr. Berdichevsky shatters the ideological prism those terms impose. This book will change the way you view the political world, forever. (Rebecca Bynum, Editor, New English Review). Dr. Norman Berdichevsky THE LEFT IS SELDOM RIGHT by DR. Norman Berdichevsky ca. 95,000 words Table of Contents Theory and the American Scene 1. The Origins of the Right-Left Metaphor 2. The Leftwing Tilt in Culture in Literature and Film 3. The Sixties Revisited; The Age of Aquarius 4. Can It Happen Here? 5. The Gods That Failed But Still Enjoy a Favorable Press – The New York Times and the BBC 6. Abraham Lincoln – Hero of the Left and/or the Right?. 7. The Religious Left as Potent as the Religious Right 8. ‘Freedom of Religion’; Not an Absolute Right 9. The Stalinist and Daniel Webster 10. The Anachronistic American Jewish Affection for the Left 11. Collective vs. Individual Rights; How the Constitution Has Been Assaulted and Balkanized by Multiculturalism/Affirmative Action EUROPE Right Wing Dictators Oppose the Axis 12. Fascist Italy and Austria Hand Hitler His First Defeat 13. Franco, Fascism and the Falange; All the Far Right? 14. The “Reactionary” King Boris III and His Crucial Role in the Salvation of Bulgaria’s Jews in World War II 15. The Soviet-Nazi Honeymoon, September 1939 – June 1941; Allies for one-third of the war. 16. The Danish ‘Far Right’ (Dansk Samling) Initiated the Resistance Against Nazi Occupation 17. The Two International Brigades; One Glorified (Spain) and the Other Forgotten (Finland) 18. Ionnas Metaxas, Autocrat, ‘Fascist”, Monarchist and Germanophile Who Led the Greek Struggle in World War II AGAINST the Axis LATIN AMERICA 19. The Cuban Communist Party Support of Both Batista and Castro 20. Peronism; Argentine Populism of both the Left and the Right. ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 21. How Israel Went from Darling of the Left to International Pariah 22. Support for JIHAD on the RIGHT & LEFT from the Kaiser through Hitler to the Soviets MARXISM AND POLITICAL THEORY 23. Marx, Stalin and Opportunism on The National Question 24. Case Closed: The Utter Failure of Marxism-Leninism 25. THREE COURAGEOUS WOMEN WHO BATTLED THE LEFT AND RIGHT: Sigrid Undset, Oriana Fallaci, Pilar Rahola Dr. Norman Berdichevsky, Professor of Geography and Hebrew (University of Central Florida, Orlando)
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