The Israel Test by George Gilder
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- Pub. Date: July 2009
- 296pp
- Sales Rank: 7,144
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 2009
- Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
- Format: Hardcover, 296pp
- Sales Rank: 7,144
- ISBN-13: 9780980076356
- ISBN: 0980076358
Synopsis
Israel is the crucial battlefield for capitalism and freedom in our time. George Gilder's global best-seller ?Wealth and Poverty? made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity. Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world's paramount example of the blessings of freedom. Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic ranting of Hitler, Arafat, bin Laden and history's other notorious haters. Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist, Israel, whose side are you on?
David Klinghoffer - The Jerusalem Post
The Israel Test spoke to me with unexpected power. Apart from being brilliantly, fiercely written, its merit lies in clarifying, in a totally new, secular, and intuitive way, why Israel matters.
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George Gilder's bestselling books have sold more than two million copies worldwide. In Wealth and Poverty, one of the most influential books of our time, Gilder made the moral case for capitalist creativity. With The Spirit of Enterprise, Microcosm, Telecosm, and Life After Television, Gilder achieved renown as a stunningly accurate prophet of the direction of technology development and enterprise, including Israel's world˜beating contributions. A contributing editor to Forbes magazine, Gilder has produced the annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference since 1997, offering leading edge forecasts and analysis from the top technology firms and research centers around the world. Gilder also heads Gilder Technology Associates, a venture capital fund focusing on breakthrough technologies. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan presented Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. Gilder is a contributing editor to Forbes and writes frequently for national publications including The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Review, and The American Spectator.
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recommended, yet not the best writtenby Anonymous
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September 26, 2009: At this point I have read a little more than half the book. The author makes good points, some of which are substantiated and some are not. The research to back up a lot of information reported as fact are not clear.
Clearly the author has a number of novel, new points to make, and they are worthy of consideration. These are contentions that are not in mainstream thought. However, the author does not sell his propositions well. Now that I have passed the half-way point in the book the writing is getting better. I find the author's weekly newsletters tighter written and had expected a level of performance at least equal to the newsletters. I will look forward to completing the book, however, and I expect to read more things of value. This book will stir thinking to those already inclined to the author's point of view, but not those leaning another direction.
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