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The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language, and Culture
Michael Savage
WND Books, 2002
The "Michael Savage Show" has grown to become one of today's major talk shows in the United States, featured on over 300 stations and heard by between three and five million listeners each week. Michael Savage, the grandson of an immigrant from Russia, is highly educated, with two masters degrees and a Ph.D from the University of California-Berkeley. As with so many others, he has made the switch from a leftward orientation as a young man to what has been described as "independent conservatism."
Despite his education, his appeal to his audience is in his stridency. Conservatives in the United States have long found a considerable appetite among Americans for a "red meat" presentation that points with alarm in a rising crescendo of anger and disillusionment. It is in satisfying this demand that Savage finds his niche. Those of any persuasion who wish to convince others are well advised to welcome voices that will make the appeal at a variety of levels -...