Amazon Lakeline Corporation Category:  Political Science Publisher: Elderberry Press ISBN-10:  1930859139 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 320 Copyright: Jan 1 2003 An eye-witness account of the dramatic story of America becoming a hyperpower in the twentieth century.  The Book: Tainted Legacy, Gen-X Inherits the Hangover ISBN 1930859139 Copyright 2003 Hardcover 320 pages with index and endnotes $29.95 list The Author: David Rumer e-mail daviru.aol.com The Publisher: Elderberry Press 1393 Old Homestead Drive Second Floor Oakland, OR  97462-9506 David St. John,  Exec. Editor TEL/FAX (541)459-6043 Order: Bookstores Amazon.com     (substantial discount) Direct toll-free 24/7 : 1-800-431-1579 Learn More: Website: www.lakelore.com

Midwest Book Review Linda Robinson
Tainted Legacy, a book recommended by a friend in the military, hit home in today's controversy about the teaching of history in American schools. In what amounts to an expose' of 20th Century Americans missing the truth, while learning deconstructed history, Rumer subtly makes the case for the "story by old dead white guys."

Recognizing that American history has a taproot in the Magna Carta, the story begins there and quickly skips through the Reformation and birth of the political philosophy called Liberalism to get to the revolutionary period. Pointing out the different versions of Liberalism pursued by the French and American revolutionaries, the author answers his own question: "How, after all those years, did it (the cold war) narrow to two ideological adversaries?"

The well-written tale that follows covers 20th Century America from the great influx of immigrants at the start of the century through the strange election that began the 21st Century. A century that saw Americans, enabled by the wisdom and vision of the Founding Fathers, build the greatest nation in the world.

At times the story reads like a novel as the author describes profound events in down to earth terms:



"With a boomer ascending to the presidency, the Radical Eglite were prepared to press their agenda to trump the evils of a Capitalist society. Had
not their grand crusades over the past thirty years, Vietnam, Civil and Gay rights, Women's Lib, the Peace Corps, and saving the environment, demonstrated the righteousness of their compassion?. . . In spite of past glory, it was not to be. From the ignominious failure of Hillary to put the Federal government in charge of America's healthcare, to Bill's last stand burning midnight oil dispensing controversial pardons, Eglite energy was diverted from the dream."



Born in the trailing cohort of the GI generation, David Rumer draws a word picture of the legacy bequeathed to the "X" generation by the "Boomers." A legacy tainted by a homemade secular "religion" practiced by an Elite in America, that sees social order infringing on their exclusive freedoms. Rumer sees them operating from an exaggerated forum where their "politically correct" opinions declare everything else irrelevant. Not a pessimist, the author uses the "theory of generations" to bring a ray of hope to America's future as the "X"ers lead the "Millenials" in overcoming mega-crises ahead.