BOOK SUMMARY "The Enemy Within"-by Michael Savage POST 3

As I predicted in my last post, the second half of the book spoke about the Dr. Savage's belief that the liberals of trying to destroy our faith and our schools.

Dr. Savage believes that liberals want to define our religious beliefs and want to force a certain value system upon us.  Liberals believe that all religions should accept abortion, homosexuality, and birth control and will develop laws to punish religions or people that disagree with this.  

In terms of schools, Dr. Savage talks about how liberals are trying to change our schools on this outside and inside.  On the outside, liberals want to get rid of private and religious schools that teach other lessons that they don't agree with.  On the inside, Dr. Savage believes that only one type of student is supported.  He gives an example of a student who is dressed like a drug dealer but a huge Michael Savage fan and conservative.  Michael Savage believes that people only dress like drug dealers to fit in in their school system and no one is telling them that this is not appropriate.  Schools that use to value diverse thought and students, now are forcing everyone to be the same.

INITIAL THOUGHTS -"The Enemy Within" by Michael Savage-POST 2

This books is very political. Michael Savage talks about military, our faith and schools and how they are being affected by the democratic party and other factors in our society.  My first impressions of the book is that is jumps around a lot.   This is not that different then Savages radio show.  He starts out the book with the question "Who is the Enemy Within" and gets straight to the point.   He identifies the enemy as mostly liberals, but makes fun of some conservatives too.

The book was written in 2005, and a lot of it still applies to today. Issues empathized in the first half include the military and faith.   He discusses how the liberals are making the military less active and smaller and believes that is a mistake and we as a country are at risk.  In terms of faith, Savage believes that liberals are taking over our religious beliefs.  Savage believes that everyone should be able to worship as they want, but feels that people are criticized from doing so.

The rest of the book will be about how liberals are taking over our schools and hurting education.

POST #1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR "The Enemy Within:Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith and Military" by Michael Savage-

This summer, for my AP US Government class, I was asked to select a book that would challenge my thinking. The book I selected is by Michael Savage called "The Enemy Within:Saving America from  the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith,and Military" (2005). I chose this book because I listen to Michael Savage on the radio and I thought that I would like to learn a little more about his thought process.  I enjoy listening to Michael Savage because he seems to challenge people based on their beliefs and doesn't really care rather they are Republicans or Democrats.  He also has low tolerance for uninformed people and isn't always very nice to ignorant people on the radio.  Even though I disagree with this method of debate, his dialogue make me laugh.

Michael Savage was born in New York and was the son of immigrants. He attended Queen College where he got his bachelor degree in biology in 1963. Savage then earned a Master of Science degree in botany from the University of Hawaii Manoa in 1970 and a Master of Arts from the same instituiion in 1972 ib anthropology. He also obtained a Ph.D. in nutritional ethonomedicine in 1978 from the University of California.   As you can see, Dr. Savage has a broad education which allows him to discuss a variety of topics from nutrition, to politics to the environment.  Even though Michael Savage is a conservative, he has written many books about how liberal thought and policies have hurt America and warns us of the future.  In this book,  I think I will learn about why Michael Savage believes that liberal thinking is taking over schools, faith and our military.  Since Michael Savage uses his radio talk show to express his thoughts about topics that come up, I expect this book to be slanted because it negatively address how liberals are destroying our society in the title.