{"product_id":"a-country-herbal-book-gordon-lesley-9780831744465","title":"A Country Herbal","description":"Since I was introduced to the world as an up-and-coming talent by the Herald Mail in 2004, I have been vainly pontificating on all things politics, current events, and philosophy. This retrospective anthology covers the first 15 years: highlights from my columns, essays, aphorisms, and interviews -- prior to a decisive turn away from my youthful outlook as a libertarian-minded Republican, atheist, and individualist, and toward Christianity and a more progressive perspective.Nonetheless, I don't think my thought was ever easy to classify. I got a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong over the years, too: I identified Donald Trump as the new avatar of the GOP base back in 2012. I identified the alt-right as an emerging threat to democracy back in 2010. I called out false media narratives on the so-called anti-incumbency wave of 2010, which was really an anti-moderate wave. In 2014 I warned my fellow capitalists that the income inequality issue was not going to disappear.I also, as a teenage Republican, predicted that the Iraq War would be part of a wave of democratic uprising in the Middle East that would see George W. Bush become known as the greatest president of modern times. Can't win 'em all.As a retrospective, this anthology aims to present my personal history as it happened, 'warts and all'. Even when it infuriates, I can guarantee that it will provoke, stimulate, and fascinate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572144218385,"sku":"GOR002220237","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656533057809,"sku":"GOR003109727","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763282317585,"sku":"CIN0831744464G","price":6.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0831744464.jpg?v=1750703842","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/a-country-herbal-book-gordon-lesley-9780831744465","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}