The Overton Window

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: James Daniels

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed...can it be stopped?

There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country.

For Noah Gardner, a 20-something public relations executive, it's safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind. Smart, single, handsome, and insulated from the world's problems by the wealth and power of his father, Noah is far more concerned about the future of his social life than the future of his country.

But all of that changes when Noah meets Molly Ross, a woman who is consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever. She and her group of patriots have vowed to remember the past and fight for the future - but Noah, convinced they're just misguided conspiracy-theorists, isn't interested in lending his considerable skills to their cause.

And then the world changes.

An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way. Amidst the chaos, many don't know the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact - or, more important, which side to fight for.

But for Noah, the choice is clear: Exposing the plan, and revealing the conspirators behind it, is the only way to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.

After five back-to-back number-one New York Times best sellers, national radio and Fox News television host Glenn Beck has delivered a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that seamlessly weaves together American history, frightening facts about our present condition, and a heart-stopping plot. The Overton Window will educate, enlighten, and, most important, entertain - with twists and revelations no one will see coming.

©2010 Glenn Beck (P)2010 Simon & Schuster

great book

great book, really makes you think about what is really going on in the world

Possible out come.

i thought the reader brought out the plot in a great way. Glenn wrote a great fictional book, but you never know we might just see it come to reality.

Great Store but won't work

What made the experience of listening to The Overton Window the most enjoyable?

Because it so close to the truth

Who was your favorite character and why?

Molly Ross then Halus

What about James Daniels’s performance did you like?

Good job

Any additional comments?

The author forgets his roll in the overall problems pointed out in the books, maybe he thinks he is Noah, but to me he is more like the father, but not as evil.

Crazy Faction at its best and a fun re-read

What did you love best about The Overton Window?

I loved how the book plays on faction; melding conjecture with facts in a fictional scenario.
This proved to be a highly imaginative book but yet disturbing how close and real this could happen. This book takes conspiracy theories and turns it around to seem plausible.
Many principles are learned in this book on both sides of the conspiracy and there is a keen display of what our founding fathers intended for us woven in a way that seems plausible and very believable.

This is one book I will enjoy playing over and over again.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Noah is the main character and he is easy to like. My favorite characters are either Hollis or Noah's father and for very different reasons.

Hollis seems down to earth and you get a sense of him that he has hidden wisdom that is only learned in life and not from book knowledge. He teaches in very clear ways without being arrogant.

Noah's father is a favorite since he shows me how dark and controlling people can be without conscience.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Very much so but life happens.

Must Be a Fan Of Author

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Oh no, unless you already know this author/talk show host.
Gads, this was such propaganda disguised as fiction. At least on the evening news you can tell fact from fiction, which the author clearly states at the end of a book what his aim was in writing this story.
This was precious listening time never to come back!
note, I did use the new 1.25x speed, but the dialogue just never got out of monotonous for me.

What could Glenn Beck have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

This author clearly has his fan-ship, I just am not one of them.

Have you listened to any of James Daniels’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I love this reader who currently doesn't do any new audio that I can find anymore, so I buy what comes into audible from time to time.
I purchased this author as James read it. Even James could not help the editing.
Don't miss any of the Robert Crais reads James does, my fave, The Watchman, The Last Detective, and any story which he reads that has Carol Starkey character.

It makes you think about various possibilities.

It makes you think about various possibilities for why things happen in our world. Entertaining possibilities based on ficticional story.

great book

i tried to finish this in one day, i was drawn in to this all the way through. great story, was well read, and it will make you think... so be open minded when listening.

Awesome!!!

I was blown away!!! Very good. A little wordy in places but the plot is so much like what is going on today. I hope WE wright a great ending to it!!!

Just In Case

This is the worst Beck book I have ever read Only because I already knew what the Overton Window is. If you dont know then you will learn many things of value. If you do, well... move on. The narrator has a whiney voice that irritated me to the point of distraction. Glenn, dear, find a better 'voice' for your work.

Where the lines between truth and fiction become frightening…

a thriller becomes even more thrilling and frightening. Google Mojave phone booth. Rumsfeld announces 2+trillion dollars unaccounted for on 9/10/2001…so much of what My. Beck included in this gripping story comes from actual history, places, events that as outrageous as the plot seems to be, one must consider that something similar could actually be on the horizon for us. It makes for a gripping read. Very entertaining. Very thought provoking.