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"Drawing on his own experience as a reporter, father, and independently minded citizen, Keith Thompson chronicles his growing disenchantment with, and eventual break from, today's illiberal and idea-free left. The result — honest, funny, smartly empirical, and compulsively readable — is a book that will appeal not just to conservatives but to all Americans who don't think Nancy Pelosi and her ilk know what's best for the nation." — Brian C. Anderson, author of South Park Conservatives and senior editor of City Journal. "Keith Thompson takes readers through the most important moments in recent political history and exposes how liberals have abandoned principles such as equality, individual rights, and political freedom. Thompson’s compelling journey reveals not just where we have been, but where we are going as a nation. Leaving the Left is a timely and important book.” — Carrie Lukas, Vice President of Policy, Independent Women’s Forum "Keith Thompson has written an arresting and witty memoir of the follies of the left. You don't want to miss it." — David Horowitz, author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey "I read Leaving the Left and realized I'd traveled the same path. I never knew being a liberal meant selling out my country or finding phony common cause with murderers. There are millions of us too. Thanks Keith for helping us stand up." — Phil Hendrie, host of The Phil Hendrie Show and co-star of the former NBC sitcom "Teachers"
"Magnificent.... Angels and Aliens, no matter what your beliefs, is the most fascinating book written on the subject." — San Francisco Chronicle "Probably the most profound book on the UFO controversy yet to appear ... Thompson chronicles the unfolding UFO story, from flying saucer sightings in 1947 to the millennial mythologizing they've stimulated ever since.... Prepare to imagine the unimaginable." — Venture World (VA) "In a brilliant stroke, Keith Thompson takes a subject usually confined to sensationalistic expose and reveals its surprising literary richness, intellectual energy, and symbolic depths. By offering a new, open-ended perspective which avoids the dogmatism of true believers and debunkers alike, Angels and Aliens invites readers to enter a fascinating world with profound implications for our understanding of the human spirit." — Addison Wesley Publishing "An intelligent, engrossing and often wryly funny analysis." — Minneapolis Star Tribune "Thompson thinks neither the UFO debunkers nor the UFO buffs are asking the right questions. As a consequence, the phenomenon remains suspended in a sort of scientific and theological limbo." — Utne Reader "A breakthrough...[A] lucid, intuitive, erudite understanding of the UFO as it presents itself in that realm between mind and matter...Thompson is a beautifully skilled writer, using words precisely and expressively." — Gnosis Magazine
What does it mean to be a man, to live with a deep awareness of a masculine sense of self? This question lies at the root of the essays that comprise this provocative anthology. Together they make up a lively exploration of the confusing roles and contradictory feelings that many men experience today. This collection looks at a wide range of topics: male rites of passage; the meaning of success, work, and the creative spirit; the value of keeping male company; the fears and rewards of growing older; loving, losing, and leaving women; masculine sexuality and desire; male competition, fear, anger, and grief. "The nearly 90 pieces in this anthology introduce readers to the concept of the deep masculine, connoting "ancient modes of adult manhood characterized by emotional richness and spiritual intensity," says editor Thompson. The book explores masculine psychology, identity, sexuality and bonding. Sam Keen discusses the satisfaction a man takes in his work and providing for a family, and Robert Bly, in an interview with the editor, examines the development of the enervated, disempowered 'soft male' in need of both male initiation and father figures." — Publishers Weekly "This provocative collection of essays brings rich perspective, and no simplistic answers, to the timeless question, "What does it mean to be a man, to live with a deep masculine sense of self?" This collection is a much welcome antidote to decades of feminist contempt toward men, manhood, and masculinity." — Donald N. Michael, author of Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn |
