The End of America

Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Naomi Wolf

A New York Times Bestseller!

In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.

The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties.

In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us–with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlets–that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.

“Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all tend to take very similar, parallel steps. The Founders of this nation were so deeply familiar with tyranny and the habits and practices of tyrants that they set up our checks and balances precisely out of fear of what is unfolding today. We are seeing these same kinds of tactics now closing down freedoms in America, turning our nation into something that in the near future could be quite other than the open society in which we grew up and learned to love liberty,” states Wolf.

Wolf is taking her message directly to the American people in the most accessible form and as part of a large national campaign to reach out to ordinary Americans about the dangers we face today. This includes a lecture and speaking tour, and being part of the nascent American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots effort to ensure that presidential candidates pledge to uphold the constitution and protect our liberties from further erosion.

The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate–spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots–to save our liberty and defend our nation.

>> Download End of America's Introduction here.

Talk by Naomi Wolf given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus.

Articles about the Book

Author Warns of Move from Torture to Totalitarianism, Spencer Speaks, October 9th, 2007

Naomi Wolf, Wings of Justice Honoree, Wings of Justice, October 17th, 2007

Interviews with Naomi Wolf

My Favorite Mistake: Naomi Wolf On Why She Regrets Her Role In Gore's Campaign, The Huffington Post, December 26th, 2007

Naomi Wolf appears on Democracy Now! (video), November 28th, 2007

Naomi Wolf on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, November 27th, 2007

Charles Goyette interviews Naomi Wolf on Anti War Radio, November 3rd, 2007

Naomi interviewed on WETA's AuthorAuthor, October 17th, 2007

Naomi interviewed on The Alcove with Mark Molaro, October 22nd, 2007

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Naomi interviewed by Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, on C-SPAN's BookTV, October 20th, 2007

Naomi interviewed on KUOW's Weekday, October 11th, 2007

About the Author

Naomi Wolf was born in San Francisco in 1962. She was an undergraduate at Yale University and did her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Her essays have appeared in various publications including: The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.

The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century, published by Random House in 1993, and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, published in 1997. Misconceptions, released in 2001, is a powerful and passionate critique of pregnancy and birth in America. In 2002, Harper Collins published a 10th anniversary commemorative edition of The Beauty Myth.

In The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love and See (2005), Wolf shared the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way.

Wolf is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.

She lives with her family in New York City.