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Book: " America 2014: An Orwellian Tale " by Dawn Blair

 

 

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This book starts where 1984 left off, and is a chilling tale that

seems all too real. Frankly, this Orwellian story ends with Bush in

his Fourth term, and if you don't think that is a possibility, then

you are a naive member of the DLC or DNC (of which there are far too

many).

 

Fascism creeps in on cat's feet sometimes, as it has been encroaching

upon our Constitution and civil liberties under four years of the Bush

administration. Now, as Bush begins the next four, we will move from

Torquemada Ashcroft to the Torturer's Apprentice Gonzales as our head

of the Department of (In)Justice. It just gets worse with each passing

day.

 

This is a novel by a largely unknown author who has accomplished the

most difficult task for a novelist: writing a sequel, with skill and

verisimilitude, of another person's work. As the website for " America

2014: An Orwellian Tale " notes:

 

Picture a totalitarian United States just ten years from now: With

no end in sight to the War on Terror, a fourth-term President George

Blush rules without restraint. The Constitution has been replaced with

a " Patriotic Citizen's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities " and

America has been renamed " God's United States. " The Blush

Administration has finally " freed " America of its " treasonous "

opposition party, " subversive " media and " obstructionist " judges.

 

In this starkly terrifying political thriller, Winston Smith is a

young, successful producer of patriotic commercials for the Department

of Homeland Security.

While working to fulfill his dream of making a contemporary film

version of " 1984, " he runs afoul of government censors, is forced to

stand trial in a nightmarish courtroom, and faces brutal execution in

a privatized prison. Rescued by a mysterious, powerful young woman and

a band of teenaged computer hackers, he joins the Resistance and

becomes swept up in a deadly struggle to undermine his government's

stranglehold on power and information.

 

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Recommendation Cont'd | " America 2014 " | back to top

 

We receive many books that are not bestsellers, and we try to give

them all a chance. But we only offer three premiums a week. So we only

occasionally get a chance to promote such books.

 

This book, however, we couldn't put down. It is just too close to the

truth, just a couple of turns of the screw away from what America is

becoming.

 

Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, Antonin Scalia, John Ashcroft, and

countless others of the Busheviks have been unabashed in saying their

goal is one-party rule of the self-described (albeit Uber

hypocritical) " morally righteous " Republican Party.

 

Dominance of the communication media is the tool by which they are

achieving their goal, along with stolen elections, a federal court

stacked with pre-enlightenment creationist loyalists to the Bush

Cartel, and gerrymandered congressional districts.

 

But at the heart of their control on the psyche of America is their

near complete ability to disseminate propaganda through a docile,

corporate media, at a time when the entertainment, news and political

worlds have nearly merged into a single entity.

 

Winston Smith created lies for the Ministry of Truth, visual images

and ads that were narcotics for the misled citizens of America. This

is his story in the age of the Orwellian Bush Cabal.

 

At the end of the book, you will find a " The Revised Constitution of

the United States of America, " ratified by the one-party Republican

state in 2009. We are almost there in content and in years. Indeed, it

may arrive ahead of schedule.

 

For those who consider such talk alarmist, read this book. It's a

little gift from a patriot who penned a fitting counterpart to Robert

Kane Pappas' " Orwell Rolls " (DVD).

 

The party that controls the means of mass communication controls the

nation. And the Busheviks believe they rule by divine decree, not by

the choice of the voters. As Orwell predicted, such rulers will use

endless wars against personified enemies to keep the masses lobotomized.

 

It is the end of the American revolution. These are not patriots who

control our government. They are pre-enlightenment fascists.

 

And if the " F " work makes you shutter because it sounds so extreme,

then you haven't yet understood what is happening here.

 

Reviews | " America 2014 " | back to top

 

" This is a hell of a story, deftly-written, with a wacky, delicious

sense of humor...a clever and imaginative understatement of the crazy

world in which we now live. "

-Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes

 

" The Bush Administration's relentless assault on civil liberties lends

a haunting realism to this gripping fiction. It is a frightening tale

of where this government's erosion of our Constitution might take us

if allowed to continue "

-Professor Linn Washington Jr., civil rights columnist for the

Philadelphia Tribune

 

" Dawn Blair is the George Orwell of our day, with all of his literary

and political significance. This provocative book will force us to

confront the manipulative, totalitarian political tendencies in our

country - namely the far-flung but perhaps not far-fetched

ramifications of the policies of the extreme right-wing within the

Bush administration. America 2014 will soon become must reading for

anyone who wants to participate in our nation's political discourse

during this important election year. In the Orwellian tradition,

Blair's book provides a well-written, enjoyable read, replete with

suspense and wit, which you will not want to put down. "

-Alan J. Gerson, New York City Council Member, Chair of the Select

Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment

 

" In America 2014 Dawn Blair creates a futuristic fable for these

pivotal times. The scary part is that it's neither very far in the

future nor very farfetched. America under George O. Blush is a

frightening cautionary tale of what could very well happen in a

country where civil liberties have eroded and patriotic fervor is

imposed by the state. This is a gutsy, imaginative, important book.

Anyone who cares about the future of this country should read it. "

-Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters

 

About the Author | " America 2014 " | back to top

 

Dawn Blair is a pseudonym for author Jonathan Greenberg, who used a

pen name for this book to emphasize one of the work's many parallels

to George Orwell—whose real name was Eric Blair. Jonathan is a widely

published New York-based investigative journalist and author with a

Masters in Law Degree from Yale Law School's journalism fellowship

program.

 

Jonathan welcomes your comments at author.

 

Book Description | " America 2014 " | back to top

 

Source Publishing, an independent imprint based in New York, is

publishing this book as a 1984 for our times. America 2014: An

Orwellian Tale is the first book, in this critical election year

" culture war, " to satirize a fourth term of an authoritarian " Blush "

Administration.

 

Picture a totalitarian United States just ten years from now: With no

end in sight to the War on Terror, a fourth-term President George

Blush rules without restraint. The Constitution has been replaced with

a " Patriotic Citizen's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities " and

America has been renamed " God's United States. " The Blush

Administration has finally " freed " America of its " treasonous "

opposition party, " subversive " media and " obstructionist " judges.

 

In this starkly terrifying political thriller, Winston Smith is a

young, successful producer of patriotic commercials for the Department

of Homeland Security. While working to fulfill his dream of making a

contemporary film version of 1984, he runs afoul of government

censors, is forced to stand trial in a nightmarish courtroom, and

faces brutal execution in a privatized prison. Rescued by a

mysterious, powerful young woman and a band of teenaged computer

hackers, he joins the Resistance and becomes swept up in a deadly

struggle to undermine his government's stranglehold on power and

information.

 

As it conjures up a frightening--and highly controversial--vision of

the future, Dawn Blair's gripping novel of American dystopia lays bare

the most incendiary political issues of the present day.

 

Book Details | " America 2014 " | back to top

 

Paperback: 222 pages

Publisher: Progressive Source Publishing (July 31, 2004)

ISBN: 1571781757

Product Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces.

 

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