Book Report: The Great Destroyer

Title: The Great Destroyer

Author: David Limbaugh

Author's web page: http://davidlimbaugh.com/

Publisher: Regnery

Date: 2012

ISBN: 1596987774

Length: over 500 pages with over 100 pages of endnotes

This review was written from a library copy of the book. The quote I would have selected, by way of recommendation for The Great Destroyer as a new book, was the introductory promise that this book can become "your one-stop shop" for facts, figures, and quotes if you get into a debate about Presidential Election 2012.

If you'd been keeping up with election news, most of the stories were familiar. You could skip enough to scan the whole book, and remember what you were likely to want to look up in it, in a week or less. You could decide, after scanning it, that a library copy was enough. Now, of course, the book is an historical artefact for your collection.

Limbaugh doesn't pretend to be impartial. President Obama was the "great destroyer." Limbaugh, a Republican (of course), picked the deadliest quotes, including Joe Biden's faint praise for China's abortion-pushing policy. He also offers a stunning array of statistics about how Obama's bailouts, stimuli, and proposed Obamacare disaster have affected our national economy.

The Great Destroyer contains about four times as many facts as The Amateur, and although it's less insightful, it's more comprehensive than Never Allow a Crisis to Go to Waste. If you could read only one campaign book, this was the basic book that would make up for inattention to the headline news.