THE OVERTON WINDOW

THE OVERTON WINDOW by Glenn Beck

From the book jacket:

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed...Can it be stopped?


There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future.  It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time.  Move the Window and you change the debate.  Change the debate and you change the country.


For Noah Gardner, a twentysomething public relations executive, it's safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind.  Smart, single, handsome, and insulated from the world's problems by the wealth and power of his father, Noah is far more concerned about the future of his social life than the future of his country.


But all of that changes when Noah meets Molly Ross, a woman who is consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever.  She and her group of patriots have vowed to remember the past and fight for the future - but Noah, convinced they're just misguided conspiracy-theorists, isn't interested in lending his considerable skills to their cause.


And then the world changes.


An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform American and demonize all those who stand in the way.  Amidst the chaos, many don't know the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact - or, more important, which side to fight for.


But for Noah, the choice is clear:  Exposing the plan, and revealing the conspirators behind it, is the only way to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.

This is a book that makes you think.  Woven throughout the story are factual and fictional events and people, and at times it's hard to tell the difference.  The plan to transform America is fiction - or is it?  Could something like this really happen?  Is it happening already?

There is an afterword to this book in which Mr. Beck gives many reference and sites for the reader to use to learn more about what is - or could be - happening to our country.  I think I have some extra research and reading to do.