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Since he was first under FBI surveillance at age 14 in the mid-1960s, Norman Solomon has been on a collision course with what he calls "the warfare state." In recent years -- with his books War Made Easy and Target Iraq and with frequent appearances on TV and radio --Solomon has cemented his reputation as (in the words of the Los Angeles Times) "a formidable thinker and activist."
His new book, MADE LOVE, GOT WAR: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State is a more personal account of the author's four decades of trying to stop his country's march to one war after another.
Solomon's columns, books and DVD "War Made Easy" are frequently on BuzzFlash.
As a founder of FAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy, Solomon is an unrelenting activist who hasn't sacrificed his principles for the rewards of cashing in on the fast track to financial comfort.
Solomon's memoir, ironically, remind us, in a positive way, that being an advocate for the common good is, well, "hard work."
This is a personal account of decades of taking the Constitution to heart and fighting against injustice.
With a foreward by Daniel Ellsberg, "Made Love, Got War" reminds us that the easiest and worst thing to do is give up on democracy.
That's what the right wing wishes of us.
But Norman Solomon hasn't thrown in the towel -- and won't.
We should all be so determined.
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (Hardcover)
By Norman Solomon

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Norman Solomon is the author of twelve books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death and, with Reese Erlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. A frequent guest on television and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent PBS documentary Buying the War and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media Education Foundation. Solomon is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language.
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From an online reviewer:
Two well-known sayings came to mind as I read this remarkably compelling book: George Santayana's famous statement, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and the variously-attributed "If you remember the '60's, you weren't really there."
Solomon remembers the `60's, and he was really there. In recounting his odyssey from principled teenager to passionate political and social-justice activist, Solomon takes us back through the decades, starting with his childhood in the Cold War, proceeding through the "make love not war" `70's, then into the anti-nuclear age of the `80's and mid-`90's, finally bringing us to the never-ending wars in the Middle East. The book reads like a journal; it is a series of windows opening onto the important daily events of the past fifty years, and how he responded to those events. As a child of the same era, I was reminded at every page of how those events affected me, and what I was doing at the same time.
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Hardcover: 247 pages
Publisher: Polipoint Press (October 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0977825345
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