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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.73 EAN: 9780316115186 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0316115185 Label: Little, Brown Manufacturer: Little, Brown Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: April 01, 1998 Publisher: Little, Brown Studio: Little, Brown Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Political pundit and two-time Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is best known for his sharp-edged cultural conservatism. The Great Betrayal, however, is an economic manifesto that promotes what Buchanan calls "economic nationalism." Buchanan believes that free trade serves the interests of Wall Street, not Main Street. Transnational corporations rake in huge profits, but ordinary Americans see few benefits. Instead, they suffer from free trade's bad consequences: flat wages for workers, increased drug trafficking, and environmental deterioration. Markets should serve people, says Buchanan, not the other way around. "The economy is not the country; the country comes first," he writes. Buchanan offers a protectionist political agenda--one that many modern conservatives may not like, but one that Buchanan says puts him in the fine tradition of Washington, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. A forceful polemic challenging elite economic opinion. -- John J. Miller Product Description: Pat Buchanan has written a nationalist manifesto, a ringing call to arms, a declaration of war on the globalists even in his own party.... The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy is vintage Buchanan, full of the cut-and-thrust we've come to expect from "Pitchfork Pat," the populist Prophet of Protectionism. As unlikely as it would appear for a book devoted to economics, Betrayal is a real page-turner, an historical thriller. Pat goes at revisionism hammer and tong, retrieving the real story of America in the Gilded Age, restoring a balanced view of the robber barons and putting to flight the myth that the Smoot-Hawley tariff brought on the Great Depression, bread lines, Hoovervilles, Hitler and World War II. The Great Betrayal from Pat Buchanan: Get it and read it! Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Most suckered nationConcerning matters of commerce, why are foreigners eating our lunch? Because too many of America's business and governmental leaders believe in a free lunch, writes Patrick J. Buchanan in this valuable volume. Buchanan's pungent pen lays the fault for the deindustrialization of our country at the door of the U.S. government. While heckling globalist-minded businesspeople for their avarice and lack of patriotism, Buchanan's over-arching theme of realism echoes Bernard Mandeville - Greed cannot ... Read More Rating: - AUDIO VERSION!!!This book is great! However, it takes a long time to read. So, would somebody please get this on audio!!! (preferably Pat of course!) Rating: - Pat is right.Of course bailing out of international trade would work. Unlike other countries, America has every resource known to man and America is able to tap those resources. A socalled "protectionist policy" or "isolationism" would only benefit America, not deter it. I know juwes don't like it, but, contrary to the words of Ben Gurion in Look magazine, America is not supposed to be the bell boy to Israel. Rating: - Warning!! Pat Buchanan's, "The Great Betrayal" can cause sleepless nights. Disclaimer!!! This book may make it harder for you to sleep at night. Our current issues as a nation have a way of doing that. "Abandonment of the protective policy by the American Government must result in the increase of both useless labour, and idleness; and so, in pro(por)tion must produce want and ruin among our people." -Abraham Lincoln, 1847 (Mr. Buchanan quoted him in chapter 9 The Great Protectionist) Pat proves that our founding fathers were not advocates of free trade. ... Read More Rating: - Nationalism vs. free trade.The heart of the subject matter in this book is nationalism vs. free trade/globalism. Pat Buchanan's view on free trade is interesting considering that he himself formerly held a pro-free trade opinion. He communicates why he opposes free trade very well in this book. Mr. Bucahanan's detailing of the political battles over free trade vs.protectionism was enlightening.It was interesting to read about where some of the former Presidents and other leaders stood on the topic. ... Read More 
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