This review is more of a justification for putting this book on the "Books Which Changed Me" list. I don't even know where this book is. I've lost it. I must have read it 15 years ago. It was right before I graduated high school, and it made me even more insufferable.

And that's exactly how it changed me. In a world where all of the adults in my lives were politically apathetic, listened to talk radio, or--like my government teacher--only trusted The Drudge Report, this book made me an annoying contrarian. A stage in my life I don't regret.
Since then my political opinions have shifted here and there. And grown. But this book still did me a world of good. It made me think about politics differently. It made me see the hypocrisy of many of the opinions around me. It also was the first nonfiction book I willingly read. An excellent book for a young teenager.Well, that's basically all I can say about it. Fifteen years later I remember this book more for its impact on me than any substance, but this is just the first entry from my list (chronologically). If you have a teenage cousin from some red state, you can give them this book. They'll terrorize their classrooms just like US backed battalions terrorized civilians in El Salvador.