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| Author | Sean Hannity |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | American politics |
| Genre | Political commentary |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication date | 2002 |
| Media type | Hardcover/paperback |
| Followed by | Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism |
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism is a 2002 best-selling book by conservative political commentator and media personality Sean Hannity.
Summary
In the book, Hannity offers a survey of the world -- political, social, and cultural -- as he sees it.
The book's publisher, ReganBooks, a division of HarperCollins, was owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News.
Reception and views
Conservative views of the book were generally positive. Radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh said that Hannity wrote with "a vigor and clarity that inspires", and that the book was a page turner. Doctor James Dobson said Hannity was "to be commended, admired -- and watched!" The Conservative Book Club said that Hannity "proves that liberal ideas have made America more vulnerable and created confusion in our society". Kathryn Lopez, reviewing the book for the National Review Online, said: "Rather than just calling those who disagree with him "the enemy," which he could have done and still sold books, Hannity communicates a real respect for the other guy's opinion, even if he thinks it insanely wrong — and it's this decency that gets people coming back to him."
Liberal reviewers were less kind. Let Freedom Ring was described as "an unapologetic pile of testicular cancer". A reviewer for People, Todd Seavey, said the book was "an amusing tour guide of an imaginary Museum of Modern Left-Wing Lunacy", and that Hannity's "outrage is entertaining". Such critics also point out that a copy of the book was found in the home of the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist shooter Jim David Adkisson.
References
- Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity
- "Trend-Setting Publisher Plans To Move to and Go Hollywood" by Edward Wyatt, New York Times, April 12, 2005
- Conservative Book Club Review
- Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2005.
- People. September 16, 2002, Todd Seavey, review of Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Ideas in Politics, Media, and Life, p. 43.
- "Suspect's note cites 'liberal movement' for church attack".