Reception
A review in Publishers Weekly described the book as a "droll and acerbic refresher course on the issues confronting the 21st-century United States". The review concluded: "Though Huberman takes his readers' sympathies for granted, the unabashedly leftwing bias and sheer breadth of this frontal assault on Republican politics and culture are factually convincing. ... overall Huberman serves up a frothy indictment to warm liberal innards." Reference & Research Book News characterized the book as a "the liberal polemical riposte" of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg. The book was highlighted in the blog "Editor's Cut" published by The Nation. Writing for The Nation, Katrina Vanden Heuvel commented: "In this witty book, Huberman lays out in well-researched detail the interlocking relationships within the vast rightwing agenda to undermine our democratic institutions for profit and prophesy."
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