If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates

by Jim Hightower

Book Overview

A plain-speaking, straight-shooting, bestselling political spark plug offers a visionary populist argument for how citizens can reclaim their political, economic, and cultural heritage in election... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006019393X
• ISBN13: 9780060193935
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Who owns the Politicians?

For anyone concerned about the drift of present day politics, this is must reading. Very serious, but with an offset of humor that tickles the funny bone. You have to laugh to keep from crying! Recommended for anyone who intends to vote in the Presidential election of 2000, and a reminder to those who don't vote. They should. The system will only change if the voting public demands it. Pray for the Republic, but vote your convictions. Enjoy Hightower's investigative reporting. He tells it like it is.

Makes You Laugh So Much You Get Mad

I couldn't put this book down. Hightower is a master at making us laugh and get po'ed at the same time. He shines a big Texan flashlight on the follies of the spoiled rich, the corporate lap-dog politicians, and the insanity of the "Market". This is a must-read for the 2000 electoral cycle. His call to arms echoed my own sentiments--it is time for us to remember Paine, Jefferson, Mother Jones, Debs, King, Chavez, and the rest of our nation's agitators and reclaim our dignity and our democracy. It is time for a top-down (not a left-right) political debate on what's happening in our country and throughout the world. Thanks Jim for an engaging and just plain good book.

Still picking up my jaw...

I've read lots of books on politics before but none like this one. I don't know of anyone who could read this book and not be affected by it - better yet, come away feeling they need to get involved. Hightower's humor is fantastic but I wasn't laughing, it's too hard while gritting your teeth. Remember all those bad things your parents told you about politics? If Hightower's facts are right then things are a lot worse than my Momma told me.

How can you tell when a politician is lying?

His lips move. Or so the old joke goes. Hightower is back, and he's as rambunctious as ever. Where his previous book, Yellow Lines, was a collection of rants about the Republicrats and their ineffective politics, Gods is about the Republicrats and their ineffective politi... oops. But there is a difference. This takes the electoral process apart piece by piece, and shows exactly how those thieves fund themselves, and how they can speak from both sides and feel good about themselves when they wake up the next morning. The most poignant point he made in the book is that the election is already over, the politics are the same, now we just choose the personality that we want, His Majesty George W., or VP Al. Good read, funny, and definitely worth the money.

A Great, Great Book

Hightower is a stinkin' genius. This book is a must-read during this vacuous media-spectacle of an election year that we're all suffering through. He exposes the political big shots and boneheads for what they are, and tops it all off with encouraging stories about real folks at the grassroots who are working to take back our democracy. Power to the people!