Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future

Mark R. Levin

Aug 2015 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin delivers a "bracing meditation” (National Review) on the ways our government has failed the next generation.

In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future at the hands of a brazenly expanding and imploding entitlement state poised to burden them with massive debt, mediocre education, waves of immigration, and a deteriorating national defense.

Yet tyranny is not inevitable. In Federalist 51, James Madison explained with cautionary insight the essential balance between the civil society and governmental restraint: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

This essential new book is, against all odds, a likeminded appeal to reason and audacity—one intended for all Americans but particularly the rising generation. Younger people must find the personal strength and will to break through the cycle of statist manipulation, unrelenting emotional overtures, and the pressure of groupthink, which are humbling, dispiriting, and absorbing them; to stand up against the heavy hand of centralized government, which if left unabated will assuredly condemn them to economic and societal calamity.

Levin calls for a new civil rights movement, one that will foster liberty and prosperity and cease the exploitation of young people by statist masterminds. He challenges the rising generation of younger Americans to awaken to the cause of their own salvation, asking: will you acquiesce to a government that overwhelmingly acts without constitutional foundation—or will you stand in your own defense so that yours and future generations can live in freedom?

Ratings and reviews

I bought this book today. I must say, within the first few pages, Mr. Levin referenced Burke, Bacon and Montesquieu. Most of the population forgot or never thought it necessary to know how these political philosophers influenced our forefathers which brought about the US Constitution. The pessimism I hold towards the ability of the individual in this county to understand the constitution has been mitigated by this book. Maybe the citizenry will take this book which can spurn them on to read and apply the classics which brought into existence the republic we all want. Thank you Mr. Levin!

If so, read this book and digest it. It's time for the majority to stand up and speak out. Unfortunately you cannot find the truth on television, and the liberal agenda is destructive and deceitful. Mark tells it like it is, and that doesn't sit well with the libby clones... You need to discover the truth on your own, and Mark will show you the way!

Excellent book. Get this book in your children's hands that are in high school and up. It will change their lives.

About the author

Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk radio host, host of LevinTV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty, & Levin, is the author of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, Unfreedom of the Press, and American Marxism. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School.