I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous

by Harry Stein

Book Overview

With biting wit and amusing personal anecdotes Harry Stein's I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican chronicles the every day survival of those plucky conservatives marooned in liberal bastions that loathe them, from Manhattan to Hollywood-and even deep bleu France. The result is a conservative's guide to love, work, dinner party mischief and staying un-smeared in liberal America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159403253X
• ISBN13: 9781594032530
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Less funny than you would think...

Don't judge by the cover. This book is not funny. I spent 40 years of my life living in Communist Poland. Now Communism is long gone, and I am U.S. citizen. And I am figuring it out that in today USA presenting myself as Republican is actually more dangerous and is creating more problems that presenting myself as anti-communist when living under Communist regime. It is OK to be on a party and make jokes about Bush, Palin, McCain and such. Actually, this is mandatory. It is NOT OK to make jokes about Biden and Obama. Once, for such jokes, I was requested to leave. Requested by my good friends. I believe that this book is not funny. It is tragic. As tragic as what is going on in this country

Humor: the best weapon against utopian Liberalism

I agree with the great Red Eye host, Greg Gutfeld. Though its subject is politics, it's subtext is human nature and relationships. Read it and weep for our country--but the tears will be tears of laughter, for Stein is a gifted wit. I compare him to another great wit, from another age--Dr. Johnson. Like Johnson, Stein might have been a philosopher but cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

A Must Read!!!

This is a must read for liberals and conservatives alike, I highly recommend it to anyone from either side of the aisle. I enjoyed it so much that I immediately purchased his other book: "How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy."

A Funny Look at the Plight of a Conservative Living in a Blue State

Posted June 1, 2009, 1:09 PM EST: Harry Stein has written another political hit book about the plight of a conservative living in a blue state. I found myself laughing out loud at his descriptions of his encounters with the liberals in his home town and how he dealt with, or avoided contact with, these foam at the mouth, raving, irrational, pinko liberal bed wetting degenerates who think they have the only political answers to everything. The book has a serious and troubling side; namely the academic world's suppression of conservative thought and the blacklisting of academics who are not liberal in their thoughts or ideas. There are other areas of discrimination that he describes in great and disturbing detail, particularly in the world of newspaper and magazine journalism and radio or television work. I was fascinated by the book and the rich and often humorous stories he tells. I received a copy in New York and read the entire book before I reached home. It is hard to put down, so don't start reading it at night, or you won't get much sleep. I will wait with great impatience for his next opus conservatorius and in the meantime will get my legislator wife to buy a bunch of these books for our holiday giving. You should also get his first book: How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.