In a simple but very thorough manner Mr. Levinson tells Americans that they should look at their constitution, not with the philosophies and discriminations of its founders and a long gone past, but with the eyes, experiences, and knowledge of their times.

Section by section he analytically exposes the weaknesses of the constitution, and reveals how some clauses in the document actually prevent a majority ever from governing, and how others create dangers to the republic should the unexpected—but not impossible—happen.

In his afterword, Mr. Levinson reminds us of the distinction between a "republic" and a "democracy." He also reminds us of the truth that many Americans who are anti-democratic for fear of "majority" abuse ignore that "minority" abuse is also a dangerous possibility. The undeniable fact is the majority of Americans have, indeed, lived for more than two hundred years being abused by their minority elite rulers. It is also an undeniable fact a pure democracy has never been given a chance to prove itself on planet Earth and that a properly structured democracy, such as presented in The Democracy That Never Was, (available only in the webstore of this website) presents no danger to minority citizens.

In Beyond Plutocracy, the author examines our government and society and recommends specific alterations that, he believes, really fix in just the right way what is wrong with the U.S. government. While the partial redesign of the American government presented here is a robust whole of interconnected parts that cannot be fully understood and appreciated save by reading the entire book, the brief overview and longer introduction on the web site’s Home page, which mainly contain text gathered from the body of the book, present a fairly good summary.

Mr. Blum has given us a real eye-opener. If you believe the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency is merely an organization that collects information, you're about as wrong as can possibly be.

From China in the 1940s to Iraq of today, William Blum's study of this country's premier "spy" agency reveals it to be a tool of American corporations and the worst enemy of any people striving for true freedom from an oppressive government.

It's time you learned of the horrible crimes against humanity this agency has committed for their greedy, uncaring American empire-building masters in the name of "democracy."

If you want to know what has been happening to American "culture" over the past sixty-five years, and why the American Way of Life has turned topsy turvy with immature children dictating to their parents and ridiculously miscast as "adults" in contemporary films and videos, and why, in today's business climate, people who are over forty, but in the prime of their lives, are not treated as the valuable, experienced employees that they are, but as obsolete and unnecessary baggage, then read this illuminating and well-researched book by reporter Diane West.