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[[Image:Thumb assaultonreason 1.jpg|right|thumb|The Assault on Reason]]

[[Image:Thumb assaultonreason 1.jpg|right|thumb|The Assault on Reason]]

''The Assault on Reason'' is primarily an assault on the [[Bush administration]], according to a ''New York Times'' book review.

'''''The Assault on Reason''''' is primarily an assault on the [[Bush administration]], according to a ''New York Times'' book review.

It is a political book <ref>Gore still says he has no plans to run for president, but his latest book, "The Assault On Reason," is so nakedly political and sharply critical it's hard to discern what his plans may be. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ABC News] </ref>

It is a political book <ref>Gore still says he has no plans to run for president, but his latest book, "The Assault On Reason," is so nakedly political and sharply critical it's hard to discern what his plans may be. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ABC News] </ref>

by [[Al Gore]] which he denies is political. <ref>"I'm not a candidate and this is not a political book, this is not a candidate book," Gore told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ABC News] </ref>

by [[Al Gore]] which he denies is political. <ref>"I'm not a candidate and this is not a political book, this is not a candidate book," Gore told Diane Sawyer on ''Good Morning America''. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ABC News] </ref>

In the book, Gore accuses [[President Bush]] of having an unprincipled hunger for power.

In the book, Gore accuses [[President Bush]] of having an unprincipled hunger for power.

In a June 12, 2007 review for Reason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan wrote:

In a June 12, 2007, review for ''Reason'' magazine, Michael C. Moynihan wrote:

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The Assault on Reason reestablishes Gore as America’s premier besserwisser and moral scold: the politician who both warns that we are scaring people to death and argues that Manhattan will soon be submerged beneath the Atlantic.<ref>[http://reason.com/news/show/120701.html Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me], Michael Moynihan, ''Reason'', June 12, 2007</ref>

The Assault on Reason reestablishes Gore as America’s premier besserwisser and moral scold: the politician who both warns that we are scaring people to death and argues that Manhattan will soon be submerged beneath the Atlantic.<ref>[http://reason.com/news/show/120701.html Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me], Michael Moynihan, ''Reason'', June 12, 2007</ref>

*The book also critiques the growing occurrence of American citizens being turned away from world events as a result of extremely minor events (specifically, the death of Anna Nicole Smith) as an analogy to a person's immune system. Gore uses the immune system to describe how when the American continuously hears too much of a negative thing, such as the goings-on in Iraq, which Gore equates to the constant exposure of a bodily sickness the immune system, it can cause the people to overreact to a small occurrence such as the death of a celebrity, which Gore equates to the immune system collapsing in on itself when an easily combatible disease has not been immunized by the body.

*The book also critiques the growing occurrence of American citizens being turned away from world events as a result of extremely minor events (specifically, the death of Anna Nicole Smith) as an analogy to a person's immune system. Gore uses the immune system to describe how when the American continuously hears too much of a negative thing, such as the goings-on in Iraq, which Gore equates to the constant exposure of a bodily sickness the immune system, it can cause the people to overreact to a small occurrence such as the death of a celebrity, which Gore equates to the immune system collapsing in on itself when an easily combatible disease has not been immunized by the body.

==False seque from general to specific==

==False segue from general to specific==

Gore's book quotes a general rhetorical question by Democratic Senator Byrd, which in itself raises a good point.

Gore's book quotes a general rhetorical question by Democratic Senator Byrd, which in itself raises a good point.