
Wrapped in the Flag
A Personal History of America’s Radical Right
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Narrado por:
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Elizabeth Evans
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Claire Conner
Wrapped in the Flag chronicles the radical right-wing world of the 1960s, when conspiracy ruled and the John Birch Society made national headlines. The daughter of a John Birch Society leader, Claire Conner introduces us to the extreme ideas of a powerful political fringe group dispensing radical solutions to America's problems. Following in the footsteps of its hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, the John Birch Society believed that an international Communist conspiracy was on the verge of taking over the government of the United States. Top politicians, including President Dwight Eisenhower, were labeled as Communist operatives. John F. Kennedy was deemed a Socialist traitor. Birchers fought civil rights, labor unions, environmental protections, Medicare, welfare programs, the United Nations, and even water fluoridation. Today, the society continues many of those same campaigns from its national headquarters in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Claire Conner's intimate account - based on records, documents and her firsthand knowledge - takes us deep inside one of the most radical right-wing movements in U.S. history. Moving seamlessly between memoir and history, humor and pain, past and present, Wrapped in the Flag serves up keen insight into the impact of extremism on one woman, her family and, if unchecked, on our country.
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Raw and frustrating
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What made the experience of listening to Wrapped in the Flag the most enjoyable?
The story is a memoir, but it felt like I was listening to fiction. It is the personal story of a person who grew up during the late 1950s and early 1960s. I had never heard of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, or things like 'healthy poverty.' The author was a child of hardcore, right-wing activists who were devoted to destroying FDR social nets and shrinking government. Perhaps it can be said that Claire's parents were devoted to destroying social democracy (period). Like many Americans, I've found myself under informed, helpless, and puzzled by the question of "Why is the right so strong?" and "Where is this crap coming from?". Claire's book helped to start lifting the fog. The narration was very professional. The narrator made Claire's work come alive. Furthermore, I've enjoyed realizing that I'm not alone in the quest to come out of the dark and participate in beating back the right's hatred of government and the good that government has accomplished. Thank you Claire Conner Mork for the starting point! I enjoyed your book and I have enjoyed following you on your Wrapped in the Flag Facebook page. Best wishes!!Why is the right so well organized?
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The best thing though about the book is that despite how much you may dislike her parents she still portrays them as human beings. I don't want to spoil the book but when her parents go through tough moments despite all their cruelties you still feel for them. They were just misguided humans, not monsters.
Hardcore. Upsetting.
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Where the Tea Party got their crazy ideas
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Captivating
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Two words on why this is relevant, Koch brothers
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What made the experience of listening to Wrapped in the Flag the most enjoyable?
I can't say this book was 'enjoyable' for me so much as it was informative. The author is just a bit older than I, but we share childhoods in the same era. The events she relates are very familiar, even though I was just a kid blithely going about my kid-business while my parents dealt with the headlines and ideas. While her parents were highly politically active, mine were not. Yet within this narrative I hear shades of my own parents attitudes. Thankfully, though my folks indicated some social beliefs that I'd rather ignore, they managed to teach me many of the principles that led to my liberal world-view in spite of themselves! It's unnearving to think that if they were bent just a little more to the right; my early experiences might have been similar to hers. Enjoyable? Not so much. Enlightening? Very much.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The trajectory of this ultra-right wing mindset of which the author writes makes me want to weep daily. The same talking points, the very same, are trumpeted in all national media without the slightest shame. At least, back in the years when the author and I were growing up, such ideas were considered insane even by conservatives and certainly by the media. If you think this kind of rhetoric is new and an offshoot of current events, you need to read this book. These people haven't even changed the words but only inserted new names throughout the last 50 years of American politics! The goals of the John Birch Society and the people who think like them are nothing short of dismantling democracy, installing theocracy, and a chilling new version of totalitarianism. Normally, I would refrain from using such extreme rhetoric myself, but in this case, I doubt even the opposition would disagree with me.Any additional comments?
Listen to this book. Pass it around. It will help.Filling in the blanks...
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The narration was very good, similar to the author's voice which you can hear in speeches on YouTube.
Excellent if a bit depressing
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