Full name: The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America

Author: Leonard Peikoff Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, History, Politics, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142181478 0142181471

Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial "truth," the public good, doing one's duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now prevalent in the United States. Here is a frightening look at where America may be heading, a clarion call for all who are concerned about preserving our right to individual freedom. Similar books: Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff The Voice of Reason by Ayn Rand Philosophy by Ayn Rand The Ayn Rand Cult by Jeff Walker Capitalism by Ayn Rand The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand Orientalism by Edward W. Said Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. Nash Lend Me Your Ears by William Safire