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The Nine Virtues
That Made Our Nation Great--and Why We Need Them More Than
Ever
Eric Bolling
St. Martin’s
Press
June 28th, 2016/ ISBN 9781250112507
Non-Fiction / Liberalism & Conservatism / Politics / Government
Reviewed
by Elise Cooper
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Wake
Up America should be the rallying cry for everyone who
wants the United States to be great again. It is also the name
of The Five co-host Eric Bolling’s book. He presents in
it a clear vision for this nation, which has gone adrift over
the last seven years. The book starts off powerfully with a
dedication to President Obama and takes off from there as he
explains why there is a need to return to the nine virtues of
America’s past. Bolling talks about his book with blackfive.net.
The qualities he writes about are grit, manliness, individualism,
merit, profit and providence, dominion over our environment,
thrift, and above all pride in this country. Bolling speaks
of his background, raised in a struggling blue-collar family
in Chicago, where he learned from his parents that hard work
and firm values will allow someone to get ahead in life. Those
values drove him as a young baseball player to being drafted
by the Pittsburgh Pirates, then success as a New York Mercantile
Exchange trader, and now his daily role on Fox News Channel.
The book begins with a dedication to President Obama, “If
it weren’t for your announced goal of ‘fundamentally
transforming the United States of America,’ I wouldn’t
have been to exceedingly motivated to write this book to stop
you and your liberal pals from achieving that goal. America
will survive your agenda.”
He explained, “I did the dedication because this upcoming
election is extremely important. It is the last shot we have
for at least eight years, maybe longer. We need to push back
against President Obama’s stated goal of not making America
exceptional on the world stage. The President has done everything
in his power to achieve the goal of undermining American exceptionalism.
We were built on having the strongest work ethic, the motivation
to achieve, and the desire to have free market capitalism.”
One group that exemplifies these virtues is the US military.
In the “Grit” chapter he wrote, “There are
a few major exceptions to today’s ‘softness indoctrination.’
The biggest and by far most important is the US military. Our
soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are among the toughest,
grittiest folks to ever walk the planet.”
How many people have been frustrated with political correctness?
Bolling shows his exasperation calling it “defeatist crap…a
huge number of Americans think trying to make everyone equal
is the right thing to do. For example, a school board's decision
in North Carolina to stop naming valedictorians over the ‘unhealthy
competition’ is an example of liberalism run amok. What
they are saying, ‘it is not ok to work hard and succeed.’
It is a ‘everyone gets a trophy culture.’ We need
to emphasize winning, being in first place or the Asian countries
like China will eat us for lunch. The top ten countries in math,
science, and reading are the Asian countries. We're becoming
a nation of wussies. Let's stop America's slide into the liberal
abyss. People are fed up with political correctness and are
tired of being told what to say, how to say it, and who to say
it to.”
The “Manliness” chapter is not intended to offend
women. Bolling explains that he did not want it misinterpreted.
“I did not mean it as some kind of sexist statement, man
versus woman, but based it on the word ‘mankind.’
We need to be strong, forward, and to say what we think. Margaret
Thatcher epitomized manliness for standing by her values.”
Bolling has made great points because Americans are asleep.
The common theme in the book is the need to wake-up, to push
back against this liberal culture, by returning to the values
of what America is founded on.
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