Book Review
America: Imagine
A World Without Her
By Dinesh D’Souza
By Norman Hill
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opposition to “Conservatives”,
who enjoyed (especially in the UK)
inherited privileges of voting or
treatment under the law.
Progressive, actually, was the
accurate term in the early 20th
century for the followers of
Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert
Croly. This group, long before FDR
and New Deal, advocated strict
government control over business,
its profits, prices and wages,
national health and old age
insurance.
should emphasize that D’Souza
does not mean a world where,
literally, America never existed.
Presumably, if that were his
intention, it could mean that the
colonies remained to this day under
British rule, the British took over
the Louisiana territory after
Napoleon’s demise, Texas became
an independent republic and Mexico
retained control over California,
Arizona and the Southwest (or
similar scenarios).
D’Souza makes it clear that he,
as an immigrant by choice to this
country, is thoroughly opposed to
all programs of Obama and Clinton.
His approach is to argue that their
ideologies and, in some cases, their
view of the US as an oppressor,
would effectively make America,
as we know it, disappear.
IMAGE COURTESY OF REGNERY PUBLISHING.
On an even stranger basis, if
Canada and Mexico existed, but
never the U.S., the territory in
between those two nations could
still be one inhabited by mostly
nomadic Indian tribes—in short,
an actual third world area.
D’Souza doesn’t deny or gloss over
mistakes and excesses committed
by America in its history. This
would include confiscation of
some Indian land where inhabitants
were peaceful farmers instead
of warlike nomads, slavery and,
of course, racial segregation after
the Civil War. But when he describes
what this country has done for its
citizens, its immigrants and other
countries as well, he amasses an
extremely positive slate.
America, as he reminds us, actually
rebuilt the bomb-shattered economies
of its two wartime enemies, Nazi
Germany and Hirohito’s Japan.
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