Monday, June 30, 2008

Letter To A Young Obama Supporter


Hugh Hewitt's newest published work is aimed right at the youth vote and their enthusiasm for Barack Obama. A blurb:
In a stunningly short time, Barack Obama has gone from complete unknown to presidential front-runner – largely by capturing the imagination of America's young people. Never before in the history of the country has the youth vote become such a critical factor in deciding a national election.

But author and radio host Hugh Hewitt argues that young Americans are being misled by Obama; underneath his veneer of exceptional rhetoric and youthful hipness lies a conventional liberal who is moreover thoroughly unqualified to be President of the United States.

In a time of intense crises at home and abroad, Hewitt argues, we can ill-afford a president who lacks experience in either foreign or economic policy, and frequently demonstrates a shocking naiveté about the threats we face.

In a heartfelt appeal directed to America's young people, as well as to their parents, Hewitt pulls back the curtain on Obama, making clear what an Obama Administration would really mean in practice. Buy it for the young Obamaniac in your family!

You can purchase it from here.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Stillman’s Essential Books About Hollywood

A week ago the Wall Street Journal featured an article by Whit Stillman in which he lists five “essential books about Hollywood.” He writes more about them there, but for future reference the books are:

The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz (1988)
The Parade’s Gone By… by Kevin Brownlow (1968)
When the Shooting Stops … the Cutting Begins by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen (1979)
Between Flops by James Curtis (1982)
Hitchcock by François Truffaut (1967)

(HT: Whit Stillman's unofficial site)