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	Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! Jesse Ventura Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Real Deal--He Should Campaign on Substance in 2008

This is my first Jesse Ventura book and I am deeply impressed. This man is the real deal, honest, straight-up, with plenty of common sense. His ideal running mate is not John McCain or Robert Kennedy Jr. but rather the star of The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen. I would gladly serve these solid citizens in a staff capacity.

The book lacks an index, while offering plenty of balanced outrage. This is a serious person who sees all that is wrong with America, and who would have no problem agreeing with the authors of Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It; or Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders.

A few of my notes from this captivating book and personality:

+ "Special interests have a stranglehold on our reality. Nobody is being told the truth."

+ Castro told him JFK assassination was an inside job. See Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History for confirmation--CIA trained team of Cuban exiles in revenge for Bay of Pigs

+ Reform Party was bogus, Perot let his ego run away with his brain

+ Buchanan hijacked the Reform Party and looted its treasury to pay off his old campaign debts

+ Both political parties are gangs

+ Organized religion is a business milking people like cows for their milk (money)

+ Down on NAFTA

+ Bush-Cheney passing federal laws that prevent states from protecting their own citizens properly from corporate predation

+ 9/11 Commission a cover-up, just as the Warren Commission was--government lies to the people (e.g. Gulf of Tonkin incident, simply cannot be trusted

+ CIA has embedded case officers within state and local governments

+ Positive on Ralph Nader as an honest person bringing up issues the two criminal parties will not raise

+ Properly faults Bush-Cheney for ignoring intelligence and privatizing war while bankrupting the Nation---if not impeachable, should at least be commitable to an insane asylum (see my lists on impeachment and holding Dick Cheney accountable, at least take a look at Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency

+ There IS a ruling class, not sure of its composition, we have to take the country back from them

+ Electoral college is long overdue for termination.

+ O'Reilly, all of those talking heads are scripted, media is about generating cash through entertainment, not about informing the citizenry

+ FCC fines broadcasters and others but they are appointed, not elected, and not accountable for their subjective definition of what is obscene

+ "Revisionist history troubles me deeply." page 265. This is the point where I decide this guy is a serious and qualified candidate to be our president.

+ 27 years of Bushes and Clintons, time for an independent party nominee to win and lead

+ National Guard should stay home.

+ Citing Mussolini, fascism is the marriage of corporations and religion. We have that here, now.

+ Need term limits on reporters, not just politicians. Reflects a profound disdain for Minnesota reporters.

I put the book down at the end of a very long very rainy day feeling good about this author, his independence of mind, his integrity. In combination with Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau; Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People; The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All; and Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, I have a very strong feeling that the national immune system is going to kick in and finally out these frauds that pretend our elections are honest and meaningful.

It's a real shame Ralph Nader does not play well with others. I'm going to get in touch with Jesse Ventura and urge him to form a Transpartisan Sunshine Cabinet that can create a balanced budget by the 4th of July 2008. He does not have to run for President, all he has to do is set the standard by which we can judge the fradulence of "the system" candidates. For those enchanted by Barack Obama, as I was until I saw his dishonest advisors, see Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate.

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awesome book this man should be our next president. this is a mst read for anyone who follows politics!

How I Came to Write a Book with Jesse Ventura

It all began, fittingly enough, in a bar in Baja. I'd heard that the governor had recently bought a house, not far from property of close friends where I often came to write during the winter. And, sure enough, one night at the local "spot" above the beach, there he was hanging out at a long table.

When the opportunity arose, I went over and sat down across from him. I'd actually met him briefly several years earlier, soon after he decided not to run for a second term in Minnesota, when he came to Dallas for the 30th anniversary marking President Kennedy's assassination. Having heard that Mr. Ventura was a student of books about the tragedy, I gave him a copy of mine, The Man Who Knew Too Much. So that was how I re-introduced myself in Baja, and it turned out he'd liked the book very much.

A few days later, my wife and I were walking along our beach when we ran into the governor and his wife, Terry. We invited them up for a drink, which turned into dinner in the course of a long and memorable evening. What a raconteur he was! The Venturas came over once more while I was in the Baja, at which point he mentioned his interest in writing a memoir about his years as governor - and, if I came back next year, maybe we might work on it together.

When I returned, he hadn't forgotten. We embarked on a series of weekly 90-minute interviews, which I taped in his living room about 10 minutes down the road. I would then transcribe our wide-ranging discussions, which covered everything from insightful and often amusing anecdotes about being an independent governor in a two-party system, to his thoughts on the Iraq War and economics, and much in-between.

I found that Jesse Ventura not only possessed an agile mind, but a remarkably original one. He came up with things that I'd never heard anyone say before! He was "politics, with a twist," you might say. And he sure didn't pull any punches. The man was a breath of fresh air, as politicians go.

Over the course of six months, little by little the book came together. It was his idea to ultimately frame the story as a travel narrative, moving through reminiscences and rants as he and Terry made their long overland journey from Minnesota to southern Baja. We also decided to give Terry a real voice, with her perspective on what it was like to be the state's First Lady adding a unique element to the story.

And it was his idea to create an ending for the book that would be, well, highly unusual and most likely extremely controversial as well. I won't give it away here - but how could it be otherwise when you're Jesse Ventura?

For me, the journey of assembling his story - of "becoming," in imaginative prose, a 250-pound ex-wrestler who became a maverick governor - was, to say the least, a whole lot of fun.

- see www.dickrussell.org, for more.

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Don't Start the Revolution Without Me

"Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!" (DSTHWM)is the first book I read that was written about Jesse Ventura. As a former Reform Party follower (I was in my mid 20's in 1996)and Libertarian "lightweight", I thought it would be a great read, as clearly I am and have been for sometime, weary and leary of the overextension of our federal government. As an active member of the Ron Paul "rEVOLution", I greatly anticipated what Ventura has to say about the Revolution. Leading up to this read, I have been watching John Adam on HBO, reading Ron Paul's "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship".

The first thing I noticed is that DSTRWM is an easy to read page turner that reads like a story. I have not read a book this easily in months. Venura and Russell have an easy style that relates to everyday people. I too found the number of typos and publishing errors noteworthy.

The stories about his experiences were very entertaining. They served as validation of the corruption and problems and the source of that validation was from a person that seems like me. As a fed-up citizen from the outside of the political machine, he was able to break through and get into the game and experience first hand, the disease that permeates our governemnt. His lack of political correctness is refreshing, in a sense, almost seeming as to cast aside politics in an effort to simply get to the proper solution.

Yet, the further I got into the book, I felt a building crescendo, and I was anticipating more. I wanted more of a rallying call than what was made. Of course, I know that my fervor coming off of the Ron Paul Revolution has me holding greater expectations than the average guy, so I have to be fair with Ventura in that I know he delivered the message.

DSTRWM is a great read for every American who wishes they could have a better government. It may compel them to quit wishing and to start to look for a way to get involved with an alternative to the Republican and Democrats. I think that is what I may have felt was lacking - more of a push from Jesse to tell the reader to wake up and get involved. He definitely covered it and spoke about apathy amongst the people - yet I didn't feel like he wanted to throw me on his proven shoulders and say "Come with me and let's do this!"

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the read. He came across as thoughtful, smart, entertaining, and quite honestly sardonic. I have a greater appreciation now for Jesse Ventura and would like to see him and his wife Terry find a way to cope with their innate desire to help Americans shape up their federal governement through higher levels of elected service.

I would serve in the revolution any day with Jesse Ventura. If you can get a copy, scoop it up and read it. It will whet your appetite to get involved in the sad state of American federal government with hopes that you won't be alone in doing so, so that you can feel like you actually have a chance to make a difference.

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