An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems

by Glenn Beck

Overview

Now available in trade paperback, the #1 bestselling New York Times author Glenn Beck tackles some of our country’s biggest problems in this funny, outrageous, and entertaining book.

Glenn Beck believes that the reason why some of our biggest problems never seem to get fixed is simple: the solutions just aren’t very convenient. And as the host of a nationally syndicated radio show and a prime-time television show on CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck doesn’t care much about convenience; he cares about common sense.

Take the issue of poverty, for example. Over the last forty years, America’s poorest cities all had one simple thing in common, but politicians will never reveal what that is (or explain how easy it would be to change). Global warming is another issue that’s rife with lies and distortion. How many times have we heard that carbon dioxide is responsible for huge natural disasters that have killed millions of people? The truth is, it’s actually the other way around: as CO2 has increased, deaths from extreme weather have decreased. But that would never be shown in an Al Gore slide show.

Combining honesty with a biting sense of humor, An Inconvenient Book contains hundreds of these "why have I never heard that before?" types of facts that will leave readers wondering how political correctness, special interests, and outright stupidity have gotten us so far away from the common sense solutions this country was built on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416560449
Publisher:	Threshold Editions
Publication date:	05/12/2009
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	205,613
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of The Blaze television network, is a ten-time #1 bestselling author and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. His #1 novels include The Overton Window, The Christmas Sweater, and The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book. His #1 nonfiction books include Cowards, The Original Argument, The 7 (with Dr. Keith Ablow), Broke, Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, Arguing with Idiots, and An Inconvenient Book. His other books include the national bestsellers The Snow Angel, Being George Washington, and The Real America. Visit GlennBeck.com or TheBlaze.com.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Glenn Beck is CNN's chief corporate-fascism advocate." — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Finally! A guy who says what people who aren't thinking, are thinking." — Jon Stewart

"Satan's mentally challenged younger brother." — Stephen King

"There's something about him that suggests that, one night, he'll say something that will cost him his career...." — Keith Olbermann

"Glenn Beck shouldn't be on [the air]." — Al Franken

Editorial Reviews

Popular XM Satellite Radio talk show host and CNN Headline News star Glenn Beck describes himself as "a conservative who doesn't happen to be a Republican." In An Inconvenient Book, he reconfirms that identification with 300 pages of blistering, often hilarious critiques of rampant political correctness in multifarious incarnations. Serious fun for right-leaning straight shooters.

In this appraisal of America's woes, conservative TV and talk-radio host Beck (The Real America) lays lighthearted siege to everything that makes the world worse. "[P]olitical correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today," he declares, as it makes us prey for Islamic fundamentalists, renders taboo the roots of our economic troubles (poor people are, in fact, lazy, he argues) and creates rampant distortion in the media. Beck goes paragraph for paragraph with global-warming alarmist Al Gore, merrily slaughtering the sacred cows of the environmentalist crowd. Not sated by the hide of the former vice president, he goes after everything and everyone from poverty to "perverts," offering solutions to these and other problems (e.g., "the key to success in the capitalist system is to believe in it"). While often informative, as in his chapter on global warming, Beck is sometimes tedious, particularly when dealing with Islam and education ("France is literally teetering on the edge, and our biggest ally, England, is about to be turned inside out as well"). He's at his best when most absurd, and funniest when he's his own target (the father of four is "little more than a flesh-and-bone jungle gym"). This should make a good read for conservatives. (Nov.)

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Publishers Weekly

"Glenn Beck is CNN's chief corporate-fascism advocate." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Finally! A guy who says what people who aren't thinking, are thinking." -- Jon Stewart

"Satan's mentally challenged younger brother." -- Stephen King

"There's something about him that suggests that, one night, he'll say something that will cost him his career...." -- Keith Olbermann

"Glenn Beck shouldn't be on [the air]." -- Al Franken

From the Publisher