PICK A BETTER COUNTRY: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America - Hardcover

Hamblin, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684807556 ISBN 13: 9780684807553

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

The popular syndicated radio host argues that the American Dream is still alive, as he attacks affirmative action, multicultural education, and media glorification of drugs and gangs. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

Billed by many as "the black Rush Limbaugh," author Ken Hamblin is the host of a daily talk show based in Denver. He tells of being raised on welfare in Brooklyn, surviving segregation in the South as an army soldier and eventually becoming a popular radio figure. These experiences, often told with conviction and humor, provide a constant backdrop to impassioned broadsides against welfare, racism, drugs, gangsta rap and establishment liberals. If a few more people come to know this man, Rush Limbaugh may soon be known as "the white Ken Hamblin."

From Publishers Weekly:

Denver-based syndicated radio talk-show host Ken Hamblin rides Harleys, flies airplanes and has been called "the black Rush Limbaugh." While he has neither provoked the following nor the counterattacks that Limbaugh has, his book?a mix of autobiography and rant?shows both the strengths and weaknesses of conservative talk radio. Citing his personal experience growing up on welfare in Brooklyn, Hamblin offers himself as living proof that poverty need not preclude personal responsibility or be used as an excuse for not seeking advancement. Similarly, he excoriates white liberals and black leaders for extolling rap music and the street argot of underclass culture. He calls that culture "black trash," a term he justifies as a racial counterpart to the more common "white trash." Hamblin's other memorable terms are talk-radio pejoratives: "brood mares" for teen welfare mothers; "egg-sucking dog liberals" for white liberals who ally with black "poverty pimps" to hobble blacks' sense of self-reliance. Unfortunately, Hamblin's political analysis is talk-radio shallow, made up of self-help bromides, pep-rally exhortations about the American dream and mud pies flung at liberals' "socialist" agenda and the alleged personal failings of welfare recipients. Hamblin offers volume?but no serious reflection on the forces creating the underclass. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684807556
• ISBN 13: 9780684807553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256